Source: Letters to the Editor, Washington Post
The Post is right that we should champion people’s ability to communicate and to access information on the Internet all over the world ["Twitter this," editorial, Nov. 21]. Online communication is the 21st century’s version of the soapbox in the village square or the pamphlet passed from hand to hand. We believe that free expression is a basic human right and necessary for democratic development — “a source of strength,” as President Obama said in Shanghai.