(B) persecuting, prosecuting, or otherwise 
punishing an individual or group for posting or 
transmitting peaceful political or religious opin-
ions via the Internet, including by electronic 
mail. 
(11) UNITED
STATES
BUSINESS.—The term 
‘‘United States business’’ means— 
(A) any corporation, partnership, associa-
tion, joint-stock company, business trust, unin-
corporated organization, or sole proprietorship 
that— 
(i) has its principal place of business 
in the United States; or 
(ii) is organized under the laws of a 
State of the United States or a territory, 
possession, or commonwealth of the United 
States; 
(B) any issuer of a security registered pur-
suant to section 12 of the Securities Exchange 
Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78l); and 
(C) any foreign subsidiary of an entity de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) or (B) to the extent 
such entity— 
(i) controls the voting shares or other 
equities of the foreign subsidiary; or 
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(ii) authorizes, directs, controls, or 
participates in acts carried out by the for-
eign subsidiary that are prohibited by this 
Act. 
(12) UNITED
STATES-SUPPORTED
CONTENT.— 
The term ‘‘United States-supported content’’ means 
content that is created or developed, in whole or in 
part, by a United States-supported information enti-
ty. 
(13) UNITED STATES-SUPPORTED INFORMATION 
ENTITY.—The term ‘‘United States-supported infor-
mation entity’’ means— 
(A) any authority of the Government of the 
United States; and 
(B) any entity that— 
(i) receives grants from the Broad-
casting Board of Governors to carry out 
international broadcasting activities in ac-
cordance with the United States Inter-
national Broadcasting Act of 1994 (title III 
of Public Law 103–236; 22 U.S.C. 6201 et 
seq.); 
(ii) exists within the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors and carries out non-
military international broadcasting activi-
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ties supported by the Government of the 
United States in accordance with such Act; 
or 
(iii) receives grants or other similar 
funding from the Government of the United 
States to carry out any information dis-
semination activities. 
(14) UNITED STATES-SUPPORTED WEB SITE.— 
The term ‘‘United States-supported Web site’’ means 
a location on the World Wide Web that is owned or 
managed by, or is registered to, a United States-sup-
ported information entity. 
SEC. 4. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act, or the application of such 
provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, 
the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provi-
sion to other persons not similarly situated or to other cir-
cumstances, shall not be affected by such invalidation. 
TITLE I—PROMOTION OF 
GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM 
SEC. 101. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States— 
(1) to promote as a fundamental component of 
United States foreign policy the right of every indi-
vidual to freedom of opinion and expression, includ-
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ing the right to hold opinions without interference 
and to seek, receive, and impart information and 
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers; 
(2) to use all appropriate instruments of United 
States influence, including diplomacy, trade policy, 
and export controls, to support, promote, and 
strengthen principles, practices, and values that pro-
mote the free flow of information, including through 
the Internet and other electronic media; and 
(3) to deter any United States business from co-
operating with officials of Internet-restricting coun-
tries in effecting the political censorship of online con-
tent. 
SEC. 102. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the President should through bilateral, and 
where appropriate, multilateral activities, seek to ob-
tain the agreement of other countries to promote the 
goals and objectives of this Act and to protect Internet 
freedom; and 
(2) to the extent that a United States business 
empowers or assists an authoritarian foreign govern-
ment in its efforts to restrict online access to the Web 
sites of Radio Free Asia, the Voice of America, or 
other United States-supported Web sites and online 
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access to United States Government reports such as 
the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Prac-
tices, the Annual Reports on International Religious 
Freedom, and the Annual Trafficking in Human Per-
sons Reports, or to identify individual Internet users, 
that business is working contrary to the foreign policy 
interests of the United States, and is undercutting 
United States taxpayer-funded efforts to promote free-
dom of information for all people, including those in 
undemocratic and repressive societies. 
SEC. 103. ANNUAL COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS 
PRACTICES. 
(a) REPORT RELATING TO ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.— 
Section 116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151n) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(g)(1) The report required by subsection (d) shall in-
clude an assessment of the freedom of electronic information 
in each foreign country. Such assessment shall include the 
following: 
‘‘(A) An assessment of the general extent to 
which Internet access is available to and used by 
citizens in that country. 
‘‘(B) An assessment of the extent to which 
government authorities in that country attempt 
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