Clinton tried to defend Washington's response to the WikiLeaks disclosure of State Department cables, claiming that the US government did not coerce a number of US companies to cut off services to WikiLeaks. The Guardian described Clinton's speech as containing "shades of hypocrisy on Internet freedom." A US federal court held a hearing Tuesday into an argument by the Justice Department that it should be able to obtain information about Twitter users connected with WikiLeaks. A day earlier, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described the acquisition attempt as an "outrageous attack by the Obama administration on the privacy and free speech rights of Twitter's customers." Agencies contributed to this story |