I was delighted to read about your interest in sharing the big screen with me. As you can imagine, I am a little occupied at the moment, but perhaps someday I can help you forget Sarah Marshall … again. My only condition is that there be Muppets involved, and that is non-negotiable.
– Hillary Clinton, in reply to Jason Segel’s joking remarks to Jimmy Fallon and Us Weekly about the Secretary of State starring in a movie with him
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Steve Stecklow, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 9, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Pressure mounted Thursday on U.S. and Western companies that sell censorship and surveillance technology to repressive regimes, with a congressman introducing a bill that would restrict such exports.
Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 7:09 am PT
Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to allow dissidents to thwart “thugs, hackers and censors.”
Since that’s about the amount a third-string social photo-sharing site gets while walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., from venture capitalists with bags of money to spend, let me just say the money is, well, underwhelming.
Clinton’s speech, thankfully, was much better.
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Jay Solomon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 15, 2011 at 12:35 pm PT
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for common global standards to guide the use of the Internet, while increasing pressure on countries like Iran, Syria and China to allow the free flow of information in their societies.
John Paczkowski in News on August 6, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Well, look at that. Research in Motion co-CEO Michael Lazaridis has already lined up a guest lecturer for his Gulf state seminar, “Understanding the Reality of the Internet”: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Kara Swisher in News on July 23, 2010 at 8:54 am PT
Jared Cohen, who has gained fame as the State Department’s social networking phenom and the youngest member of its policy planning staff, is considering taking a job at Google in a strategic policy role, said several sources close to the situation.
Cohen has been in discussions with Google recently about going there, those sources said, although it is not a done deal.
In other words, the revolving door between D.C. and Silicon Valley keeps on turning, especially Googlers.
John Paczkowski in News on January 22, 2010 at 7:06 am PT
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech on Internet censorship Thursday and her call for an investigation into charges that Chinese-backed hackers attacked Google have met with a bristling and indignant response from Beijing. In a statement posted to China’s Foreign Ministry Web site, Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said the United States should “cease using so-called Internet freedom to make groundless accusations against China.”
John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2010 at 8:06 am PT
China has denied involvement in the recent cyber attacks against Google, but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would like it to investigate them anyway. “Google’s review of its business operations in China has attracted a great deal of interest,” Clinton said during a speech this morning on Internet freedom at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. “We look to Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber intrusions that led Google to make this announcement.”
