America and other United States Government spon-
sored broadcasting available to people in nations 
with governments that seek to block news and infor-
mation. 
(9) The United States Government has thus far 
commenced only modest steps to fund and deploy 
technologies to defeat Internet censorship. To date, 
the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have 
committed a total of $1,000,000 for technology to 
counter Internet jamming by the People’s Republic 
of China. This technology, which has been successful 
in attracting 100,000 electronic hits per day from 
the People’s Republic of China, has been relied upon 
by Voice of America and Radio Free Asia to ensure 
access to their programming by citizens of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, but United States Govern-
ment financial support for the technology has 
lapsed. In most other countries there is no meaning-
ful United States support for Internet freedom. 
(10) The success of United States policy in sup-
port of freedom of speech, press, and association re-
quires new initiatives to defeat totalitarian and au-
thoritarian controls on news and information over 
the Internet.
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are—
(1) to adopt an effective and robust global 
Internet freedom policy; 
(2) to establish an office within the Inter-
national Broadcasting Bureau with the sole mission 
of countering Internet jamming and blocking by re-
pressive regimes; 
(3) to expedite the development and deployment 
of technology to protect Internet freedom around the 
world; 
(4) to authorize the commitment of a substan-
tial portion of United States international broad-
casting resources to the continued development and 
implementation of technologies to counter the jam-
ming of the Internet; 
(5) to utilize the expertise of the private sector 
in the development and implementation of such tech-
nologies, so that the many current technologies used 
commercially for securing business transactions and 
providing virtual meeting space can be used to pro-
mote democracy and freedom; and 
(6) to bring to bear the pressure of the free 
world on repressive governments guilty of Internet 
censorship and the intimidation and persecution of 
their citizens who use the Internet.
SEC. 4. DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF TECH-
NOLOGIES TO DEFEAT INTERNET JAMMING 
AND CENSORSHIP. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF GLOBAL INTER-
NET FREEDOM.—There is established in the International 
Broadcasting Bureau the Office of Global Internet Free-
dom (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Office’’). 
The Office shall be headed by a Director who shall develop 
and implement a comprehensive global strategy to combat 
state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming, and 
persecution of those who use the Internet. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Office 
$50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2003 and 2004. 
(c) COOPERATION
OF OTHER FEDERAL DEPART-
MENTS AND AGENCIES.—Each department and agency of 
the United States Government shall cooperate fully with, 
and assist in the implementation of, the strategy developed 
by the Office and shall make such resources and informa-
tion available to the Office as is necessary to the achieve-
ment of the purposes of this Act. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—On March 1 following 
the date of the enactment of this Act and annually there-
after, the Director of the Office shall submit to the Con-
gress a report on the status of state interference with 
Internet use and of efforts by the United States to counter
such interference. Each report shall list the countries that 
pursue policies of Internet censorship, blocking, and other 
abuses; provide information concerning the government 
agencies or quasi-governmental organizations that imple-
ment Internet censorship; and describe with the greatest 
particularity practicable the technological means by which 
such blocking and other abuses are accomplished. In the 
discretion of the Director, such report may be submitted 
in both a classified and nonclassified version. 
(e) LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY.—Nothing in this 
Act shall be interpreted to authorize any action by the 
United States to interfere with foreign national censorship 
in furtherance of legitimate law enforcement aims that is 
consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights. 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that the United States 
should—
(1) publicly, prominently, and consistently de-
nounce governments that restrict, censor, ban, and 
block access to information on the Internet; 
(2) direct the United States Representative to 
the United Nations to submit a resolution at the 
next annual meeting of the United Nations Human 
Rights Commission condemning all governments