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I am one of the economic advisers here and among my portfolio topics is Internet Policy.
And one the things the that United States has been leading since I arrived here-- and
it actually began with out previous ambassador as a very robust initiative to create a recommendation
of a set of internet policy-making principles that helps insure the open, multi-stakeholder
approach to internet governance and enshrine economic development, economic growth, and
also protection of freedom of expression in human rights as part of the internet platform.
So three main goals would include, one, insuring that as we look at the internet and how it
continues to develop that we avoid a heavy-handed top-down government approach to internet,
meaning we don't want censorship, we don't want anybody impinging on freedom of expression.
We want the kind of internet that we've seen up until today, one that maximizes freedom
of expression, economic opportunity, innovation, so that's what we're really looking for. And
as the United States works here at the OECD, we use this as one of the international fora
in which we can advance that multi-stakeholder to ensure an open internet. That at the end
of the day helps advance economic growth and also the protection of internet freedom.