110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 275
To promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to protect United
States businesses from coercion to participate in repression by authoritarian
foreign governments, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 5, 2007
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. WOLF) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to protect United
States businesses from coercion to participate in repression by authoritarian
foreign governments, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title- This Act may be cited as the `Global Online Freedom Act
of 2007'.
(b) Table of Contents- The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--PROMOTION OF GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM
Sec. 101. Statement of policy.
Sec. 102. Sense of Congress.
Sec. 103. Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Sec. 104. Office of Global Internet Freedom.
Sec. 105. Annual designation of Internet-restricting countries; report.
TITLE II--MINIMUM CORPORATE STANDARDS FOR ONLINE FREEDOM
Sec. 201. Protection of personally identifiable information.
Sec. 202. Integrity of personally identifiable information.
Sec. 203. Transparency regarding search engine filtering.
Sec. 204. Transparency regarding Internet censorship.
Sec. 205. Protection of United States-supported online content.
Sec. 207. Presidential waiver.
TITLE III--EXPORT CONTROLS FOR INTERNET-RESTRICTING COUNTRIES
Sec. 301. Feasibility study on establishment of export controls.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are fundamental human rights,
and free flow of information on the Internet is protected in Article 19
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom
to `receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless
of frontiers'.
(2) The Internet has been a success because it quickly provides information
to its more than 972,000,000 users globally.
(3) The growth of the Internet and other information technologies can
be a force for democratic change if the information is not subject to
political censorship.
(4) The Internet has played a role in bringing international attention
to issues the discussion of which are forbidden by authoritarian foreign
governments, such as attempts by the Government of the People's Republic
of China to suppress news of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
outbreak in 2004.
(5) The rapid provision of full and uncensored information through the
Internet has become a major industry of the United States, and one of
its major exports.
(6) Political censorship of the Internet degrades the quality of that
service and ultimately threatens the integrity and viability of the industry
itself, both in the United States and abroad.
(7) Authoritarian foreign governments such as the Governments of Belarus,
Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, North Korea, the People's Republic of China,
Tunisia, and Vietnam block, restrict, and monitor the information their
citizens try to obtain.
(8) Web sites that provide uncensored news and information, such as the
Web sites of the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, are routinely blocked
in such countries.
(9) In June 2003, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
arrested, convicted of `spying', and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment
and 3 years house arrest (later reduced on appeal to 5 years imprisonment
and 3 years house arrest) Dr. Pham Hong Son after he translated an Internet
article titled `What is Democracy' from the Web site of the United States
Embassy in Vietnam.
(10) According to the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices, the Government of Vietnam in 2004 tightened control of the
Internet, requiring Internet agents, such as cyber cafes, to register
the personal information of their customers and store records of Internet
sites visited by customers. The Vietnamese Government also monitored electronic
mail, searched for sensitive key words, and regulated Internet content.
(11) The Government of the People's Republic of China has employed censorship
of the Internet in violation of Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution,
which guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly,
freedom of association, freedom of procession, and freedom of demonstration.
(12) This censorship by the Chinese Government promotes, perpetuates,
and exacerbates a xenophobic--and at times particularly anti-American--Chinese
nationalism, the long-term effect of which will be deleterious to United
States efforts to prevent the relationship between the United States and
China from becoming hostile.
(13) Technology companies in the United States that operate in countries
controlled by authoritarian foreign governments have a moral responsibility
to comply with the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
(14) Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure
by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with
information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment
of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such
companies to protect and uphold human rights.
(15) Technology companies in the United States have provided technology
and training to authoritarian foreign governments which have been used
by such governments in filtering and blocking information that promotes
democracy and freedom.
(16) Technology companies in the United States should develop standards
by which they can conduct business with authoritarian foreign governments
while protecting human rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
(17) The United States supports the universal right to freedom of speech
and freedom of the press.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES- Except as otherwise provided
in this Act, the term `appropriate congressional committees' means--
(A) the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives;
and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
(A) IN GENERAL- The term `foreign official' means--
(i) any officer or employee of a foreign government or any department,
agency, state-owned enterprise, or instrumentality thereof; or
(ii) any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of
any such government or department, agency, state-owned enterprise,
or instrumentality.
(B) STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISE- For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term
`state-owned enterprise' means a commercial entity in which a foreign
government owns, directly or indirectly, more than 50 percent of the
outstanding capital stock or other beneficial interest in such commercial
entity.
(3) INTERNET- The term `Internet' means the combination of computer facilities,
telecommunications facilities, electromagnetic transmission media, and
related equipment and software, comprising the interconnected worldwide
network of computer networks that employ the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol or any successor protocol to transmit information.
(4) INTERNET CONTENT HOSTING SERVICE- The terms `Internet content hosting
service' and `content hosting service' mean a service that--
(A) stores, through electromagnetic or other means, electronic data,
including the content of Web pages, electronic mail, documents, images,
audio and video files, online discussion boards, and Web logs; and
(B) makes such data available via the Internet.
(5) INTERNET JAMMING- The term `Internet jamming' means jamming, censoring,
blocking, monitoring, or restricting access to the Internet, or to content
made available via the Internet, by using technologies such as firewalls,
filters, and `black boxes'.
(6) INTERNET-RESTRICTING COUNTRY- The term `Internet-restricting country'
means a country designated by the President pursuant to section 105(a)
of this Act.
(7) INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE- The term `Internet search engine' or `search
engine' means a service made available via the Internet that, on the basis
of query consisting of terms, concepts, questions, or other data input
by a user, searches information available on the Internet and returns
to the user a means, such as a hyperlinked list of Uniform Resource Identifiers,
of locating, viewing, or downloading information or data available on
the Internet relating to that query.
(8) LEGITIMATE FOREIGN LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES-
(A) IN GENERAL- The term `legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes'
means for purposes of enforcement, investigation, or prosecution by
a foreign official based on a publicly promulgated law of reasonable
specificity that proximately relates to the protection or promotion
of the health, safety, or morals of the citizens of that jurisdiction.
(B) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION- For purposes of this Act, the control, suppression,
or punishment of peaceful expression of political or religious opinion,
which is protected by Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, does not constitute a legitimate foreign law enforcement
purpose.
(9) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION- The term `personally identifiable
information'--
(A) includes any information described in section 2703(c)(2) of title
18, United States Code; and
(i) any traffic data (as such term is defined in section 201(b) of
this Act); or
(ii) any record of aggregate data that does not identify particular
persons.
(10) SUBSTANTIAL RESTRICTIONS ON INTERNET FREEDOM- The term `substantial
restrictions on Internet freedom' means actions that restrict or punish
the free availability of information via the Internet for reasons other
than legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes, including--
(A) deliberately blocking, filtering, or censoring information available
via the Internet based on its peaceful political or religious content;
or
(B) persecuting, prosecuting, or otherwise punishing an individual or
group for posting or transmitting peaceful political or religious opinions
via the Internet, including by electronic mail.
(11) UNITED STATES BUSINESS- The term `United States business' means--
(A) any corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company,
business trust, unincorporated 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 pursuant to section 12 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78l); and
(C) any foreign subsidiary of an entity described in subparagraph (A)
or (B) to the extent such entity--
(i) controls the voting shares or other equities of the foreign subsidiary;
or
(ii) authorizes, directs, controls, or participates in acts carried
out by the foreign 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 entity.
(13) UNITED STATES-SUPPORTED INFORMATION ENTITY- The term `United States-supported
information entity' means--
(A) any authority of the Government of the United States; and
(i) receives grants from the Broadcasting Board of Governors to carry
out international broadcasting activities in accordance with the United
States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (title III of Public
Law 103-236; 22 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.);
(ii) in coordination with the International Broadcasting Bureau, carries
out all nonmilitary international broadcasting activities supported
by the Government of the United States in accordance with such Act
(other than the international broadcasting activities supported by
the Broadcasting Board of Governors as specified in such Act); or
(iii) receives grants or other similar funding from the Government
of the United States to carry out any information dissemination 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-supported 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 provision to other persons not similarly situated
or to other circumstances, 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 everyone to freedom of opinion and expression, including
the freedom 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 promote the free flow
of information, including through the Internet and other electronic media;
and
(3) to deter any United States business from cooperating with officials
of Internet-restricting countries in effecting the political censorship
of online content.
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 obtain 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 government 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 access to United States Government
reports such as the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,
the Annual Reports on International Religious Freedom, and the Annual
Trafficking in Human Persons Reports, that business is working contrary
to the foreign policy interests of the United States, and is undercutting
United States taxpayer-funded efforts to promote freedom 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 following
new subsection:
`(g)(1) The report required by subsection (d) shall include 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 to filter, censor, or otherwise block Internet content,
as well as a description of the means by which they attempt to block such
content.
`(C) A description of known instances in which government authorities
in that country have persecuted, prosecuted, or otherwise punished a person
or group for the peaceful expression of political, religious, or dissenting
views via the Internet, including electronic mail.
`(2) In compiling data and making assessments for the purposes of paragraph
(1), United States diplomatic mission personnel shall consult with human
rights organizations and other appropriate nongovernmental organizations.'.
(b) Report Relating to Security Assistance- Section 502B of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304) is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
`(i)(1) The report required by subsection (b) shall include 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 to filter, censor, or otherwise block Internet content,
as well as a description of the means by which they attempt to block such
content.
`(C) A description of known instances in which government authorities
in that country have persecuted, prosecuted, or otherwise punished a person
or group for the peaceful expression of political, religious, or dissenting
views via the Internet, including electronic mail.
`(2) In compiling data and making assessments for the purposes of paragraph
(1), United States diplomatic mission personnel shall consult with human
rights organizations and other appropriate nongovernmental organizations.'.
SEC. 104. OFFICE OF GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM.
(a) Establishment- There is established in the Department of State the Office
of Global Internet Freedom (in this section referred to as the `Office').
(b) Duties- In addition to such other responsibilities as the President
may assign, the Office shall--
(1) serve as the focal point for interagency efforts to protect and promote
freedom of electronic information abroad;
(2) develop and ensure the implementation of a global strategy and programs
to combat state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming by authoritarian
foreign governments, and the intimidation and persecution by such governments
of their citizens who use the Internet;
(3) provide assistance to the President in connection with the annual
designation of Internet-restricting countries required by section 105(a)
of this Act;
(4) beginning not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act--
(A) identify key words, terms, and phrases relating to human rights,
democracy, religious free exercise, and peaceful political dissent,
both in general and as specifically related to the particular context
and circumstances of each Internet-restricting country; and
(B) maintain, update, and make publicly available on a regular basis
the key words, terms, and phrases identified pursuant to subparagraph
(A);
(5) establish mechanisms by which United States businesses can transmit
to the Office the information required to be reported by sections 203
and 204 of this Act;
(6) establish a regularized consultative process with appropriate technology
companies involved in providing, maintaining, or servicing the Internet,
human rights organizations, academic experts, and others to develop a
voluntary code of minimum corporate standards related to Internet freedom,
and to consult with such companies, organizations, experts, and others
regarding new technologies and the implementation of appropriate policies
relating to such technologies; and
(7) advise the appropriate congressional committees of legislative action
that may be necessary to keep the provisions of this Act and the amendments
made by this Act relevant to changing technologies.
(c) Cooperation of Other Federal Departments and Agencies- Each department
and agency of the Government of the United States, including the Department
of Commerce, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Department
of Justice, the International Broadcasting Bureau, and the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence, shall--
(1) cooperate fully with, and assist in the implementation of, the duties
of the Office described in subsection (b), including the strategy developed
by the Office pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection (b); and
(2) make such resources and information available to the Office on a nonreimbursable
basis as is necessary to achieve the purposes of this Act and the amendments
made by this Act.
(d) Definition- In this section, the term `appropriate congressional committees'
means--
(1) the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Energy
and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the Senate.
(e) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated
to the Office to carry out this section $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal
years 2008 and 2009.
SEC. 105. ANNUAL DESIGNATION OF INTERNET-RESTRICTING COUNTRIES; REPORT.
(1) IN GENERAL- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President shall designate Internet-restricting
countries for purposes of this Act.
(2) STANDARD- A foreign country shall be designated as an Internet-restricting
country if the President determines that the government of the country
is directly or indirectly responsible for a systematic pattern of substantial
restrictions on Internet freedom during the preceding 1-year period.
(A) IN GENERAL- Each of the countries specified in subparagraph (B)
shall be deemed to be designated as an Internet-restricting country
pursuant to paragraph (1) beginning on the date of the enactment of
this Act and ending on the date on which the President certifies to
the appropriate congressional committees that the country involved is
no longer directly or indirectly responsible for a systematic pattern
of substantial restrictions on Internet freedom.
(B) COUNTRIES- The countries referred to in subparagraph (A) are Belarus,
Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, North Korea, the People's Republic of China,
Tunisia, and Vietnam.
(1) IN GENERAL- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President shall transmit to
the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains the following:
(A) The name of each foreign country that at the time of the transmission
of the report is designated as an Internet-restricting country pursuant
to subsection (a).
(B) An identification of each government agency and quasi-government
organization responsible for the substantial restrictions on Internet
freedom in each foreign country designated as an Internet-restricting
country pursuant to subsection (a).
(C) A description of efforts by the United States to counter the substantial
restrictions on Internet freedom referred to in subparagraph (B).
(2) FORM- The information required by paragraph (1)(C) of the report may
be provided in a classified form if necessary.
(3) INTERNET AVAILABILITY- All unclassified portions of the report shall
be made publicly available on the Internet Web site of the Department
of State.
TITLE II--MINIMUM CORPORATE STANDARDS FOR ONLINE FREEDOM
SEC. 201. PROTECTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.
(a) Prohibition of Locating Personally Identifiable Information in Internet-Restricting
Countries- A United States business may not locate, within a designated
Internet-restricting country, any electronic communication that contains
any personally identifiable information.
(b) Definitions- In this section:
(1) TITLE 18 DEFINITIONS- The terms `electronic communication', `electronic
communications system', `electronic storage', and `contents' have the
meanings given such terms in section 2510 of title 18, United States Code.
(2) LOCATE- The term `locate' includes, with respect to an electronic
communication--
(A) computer storage or processing by facilities of a remote computing
service, as such term is defined in section 2711 of title 18, United
States Code;
(B) electronic storage by any electronic or computer server or facility
of an electronic communications system; and
(C) any other storage by any electronic or computer server or facility.
(3) TRAFFIC DATA- The term `traffic data' means, with respect to an electronic
communication, any information contained in or relating to such communication
that is processed for the purpose of the conveyance of the communication
by an electronic communications system or for the billing thereof, including
any Internet Protocol address or other means of identifying a location
within an electronic communications system, but that does not by itself
identify a particular person. Such term does not include the contents
of any electronic communication.
SEC. 202. INTEGRITY OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.
(a) User Protection- If a United States business collects or obtains personally
identifiable information through the provision of products or services on
the Internet, such business may not provide such information to any foreign
official of an Internet-restricting country, except for legitimate foreign
law enforcement purposes as determined by the Department of Justice.
(b) Use of Established Legal Channels- Any information that may be provided
under subsection (a) for legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes may
only be provided through established legal channels as determined by the
Department of Justice.
(c) Private Right of Action- Any person aggrieved by a violation of this
section may bring an action for damages, including punitive damages, or
other appropriate relief in the appropriate district court of the United
States, without regard to the amount in controversy, and without regard
to the citizenship of the parties.
SEC. 203. TRANSPARENCY REGARDING SEARCH ENGINE FILTERING.
Any United States business that creates, provides, or hosts an Internet
search engine shall provide the Office of Global Internet Freedom, in a
format and with a frequency to be specified by the Office, with all terms
and parameters used to filter, limit, or otherwise affect the results provided
by the search engine that are implemented--
(1) at the request of, or by reason of any other direct or indirect communication
by, any foreign official of an Internet-restricting country; or
(2) to comply with a policy or practice of restrictions on Internet freedom
in an Internet-restricting country.
SEC. 204. TRANSPARENCY REGARDING INTERNET CENSORSHIP.
(a) Provision of URLs- Any United States business that maintains an Internet
content hosting service shall provide the Office of Global Internet Freedom,
in a format and with a frequency to be specified by the Office, with the
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) of all data and content that such business
has, under the circumstances set forth in subsection (b)--
(1) removed from the content hosting service of such business;
(2) blocked from availability on the Internet; or
(3) blocked from transmission via the Internet into or within an Internet-restricting
country.
(b) Circumstances- The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that
the United States business took the action under subsection (a)--
(1) at the request of, or by reason of any other direct or indirect communication
by, any foreign official of an Internet-restricting country; or
(2) in order to comply with a policy or practice of restrictions on Internet
freedom in an Internet-restricting country.
SEC. 205. PROTECTION OF UNITED STATES-SUPPORTED ONLINE CONTENT.
A United States business that maintains an Internet content hosting service
may not conduct Internet jamming of a United States-supported Web site or
United States-supported content in an Internet-restricting country.
SEC. 206. PENALTIES.
(a) Civil Penalties- (1)(A) Any United States business that violates section
202(a) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $2,000,000 imposed
in an action brought by the Attorney General.
(B) Any officer, director, employee, or agent, or stockholder of a United
States business, who is acting on behalf of that business concern and who
violates section 202(a), shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more
$100,000 imposed in an action brought by the Attorney General.
(2) Any United States business that violates section 201, 203, 204, or 205,
or any officer, director, employee, or agent, or stockholder of a United
States business, who is acting on behalf of that business concern and who
violates section 201, 203, 204, or 205, shall be subject to a civil penalty
of not more than $10,000 imposed in an action brought by the Attorney General.
(b) Criminal Penalties- (1)(A) Any United States business that willfully
violates, or willfully attempts to violate, section 202(a) shall be fined
not more than $2,000,000.
(B) Any officer, director, employee, or agent, or stockholder of a United
States business, who is acting on behalf of that business concern, and who
willfully violates, or willfully attempts to violate, section 202(a), shall
be fined not more than $100,000, or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or
both.
(2)(A) Any United States business that willfully violates, or willfully
attempts to violate, section 201, 203, 204, or 205 shall be fined not more
than $10,000.
(B) Any officer, director, employee, or agent, or stockholder of a United
States business, who is acting on behalf of that business concern and who
willfully violates, or willfully attempts to violate, section 201, 203,
204, or 205, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more
than 1 year, or both.
(c) Payment of Fines- Whenever a fine is imposed under subsection (a) or
(b) upon any officer, director, employee, agent, or stockholder of a United
States business, the fine may not be paid, directly or indirectly, by the
United States business.
SEC. 207. PRESIDENTIAL WAIVER.
(a) In General- Subject to subsection (b), the President may waive the application
of any of the provisions of sections 201 through 205 with respect to a United
States business or an Internet-restricting country, if the President determines
and so reports to the appropriate congressional committees that--
(1) the government of the country has ceased the activities giving rise
to the designation of the country as an Internet-restricting country;
(2) the exercise of such waiver authority would further the purposes of
this Act; or
(3) the important national interest of the United States requires the
exercise of such waiver authority.
(b) Congressional Notification- Not later than the date of the exercise
of a waiver under subsection (a), the President shall notify the appropriate
congressional committees of the waiver or the intention to exercise the
waiver, together with a detailed justification for the waiver.
TITLE III--EXPORT CONTROLS FOR INTERNET-RESTRICTING COUNTRIES
SEC. 301. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON ESTABLISHMENT OF EXPORT CONTROLS.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall
complete a feasibility study regarding the development of export license
requirements regarding the export of any item subject to sections 730 through
774 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations (commonly known as the `Export
Administration Regulations') to an end user in an Internet-restricting country
for the purpose, in whole or in part, of facilitating substantial restrictions
on Internet freedom.
SEC. 302. REPORT.
Not later than 30 days after the end of the 180-day period described in
section 301, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary
of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report
describing the actions taken to carry out section 301.
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