This article appeared in the NY Times today:
Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors
By BRAD STONE
Published: January 21, 2010
Five United States senators want the government to move ahead with plans to provide $45 million to help people in other countries evade Web restrictions.
This paragraph could easily have "Walter Reed medical center" substituted in for "China and Iran":
But in the online age the nature of censorship has changed, and regimes like those in China and Iran often deny their populations access to Web news outlets and sites like Google, Facebook and Twitter.
...although we can get to Google. Not Youtube, or blogs though.
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