On January 21,2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned "Internet freedom" into a rallying cry for U.S. foreign policy. Two years later, she remains firmly convinced of the importance of this cause, as evidenced in "Internet Freedom and Human Rights" (Issues, Spring 2012). Unfortunately, a foreign-policy emphasis on Internet freedom is ill-advised for a simple if counterintuitive reason: The Internet is never the primary cause of critical changes in governance or human rights.
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