Internet Freedom: A Conversation with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy was pleased to welcome Michael Posner, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor for a dialogue on Internet freedom. A moderated conversation led by Geoffrey Cowan, University Professor, Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership and director of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, followed Posner’s remarks.

Secretary Posner's remarkes touched upon Internet freedom, a foreign policy priority of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Obama Administration. He also discussed U.S. government efforts to develop technologies that combat Internet censorship, the growing efforts by repressive regimes to curtail digital freedoms, and the responsibility of technology corporations to respect human rights in countries that restrict Internet freedom.