Hillary then and now

I guess some folk’s ideas and opinions just kind of ‘evolve’ as they mature or kind of see the need to support an idea given the situation at hand. The Drudge Report this morning has a comparison of Hillary Clinton and how she has ’seen the light’ on limiting or regulating information available on the internet:

FLASHBACK: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS INTERNET NEWS NEEDS ‘RETHINK’

Sun Sep 25 2005 16:52:50 ET

Hillary Rodham Clinton said IN 1998 during a meeting with reporters said that “we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with” the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites.

Clinton was asked whether she favored curbs on the Internet, after the DRUDGE REPORT made headlines with coverage of her husband’s affair with a White House intern. “We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values … Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?” she said.

Hillary Clinton

Fast Forward:

Clinton urges Internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks:

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for an unfettered worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.

“A new information curtain is descending across much of the world,” she said, calling growing Internet curbs the modern equivalent of the Berlin Wall.

“We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas,” said Clinton in a major address that cited China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt among countries that censored the Internet or harassed bloggers.

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