WASHINGTON ¨C The U.S. State Department is developing ?an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said.
The site will be hosted at ¡°freedom.gov,¡± the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user¡¯s traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked.
Headed by Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, the project was expected ?to be unveiled at last week¡¯s Munich Security Conference but was delayed, the sources said. Reporters could not determine why the launch did not happen, but some State Department ?officials, ?including lawyers, have raised concerns about the plan, two of the sources said, without detailing the concerns.
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