Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: The political, economic, and social benefits of the internet are important to advancing democracy and freedom throughout the world. Authoritarian governments are investing billions of dollars each year to create, maintain, and expand repressive internet censorship and surveillance systems to limit free association, control access to information, and prevent citizens from exercising their rights to free speech. Over two-thirds of the world’s population lives in a country where the internet is restricted, and governments shut down the internet over 200 times each year.
Internet censorship and surveillance technology is being exported rapidly around the world, particularly by the Chinese Government, enabling widespread abuses by authoritarian governments.