host: rebecca mackinnon examines u.s.related to the agenda, human rights, and global internet freedom, co- founder of the global citizen media network and worked as a journalist for cnn in beijing serving as the correspondent from 1998-2001, then as the tokyo bureau chief from 2001- 2003. what is the state department doing to procter the internet, social media, in other countries? marked a budget do they have? are they using that money? the state department has $30 million -- guest: the state department has $30 million in earmarks to spend on organizations that are developing technologies that will help to promote internet freedom. there has been some controversy about how this money should be spent. so far, $5 million of the money has been spent. there are some in congress and elsewhere in washington who feel that this should be narrowly focused on a set of tools that are known as circumvention tools which basically means software and services that help you get around the internet blocks. in china, you cannot access face

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