November 16, 2009
Posted: November 16th, 2009 08:38 AM ET
From CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian SHANGHAI, China (CNN) - It was the one question that got the most attention at President Obama's Shanghai town hall meeting. And it set him up to address the issue of censorship: "Should we be able to use Twitter freely?" In a country that routinely blocks access to cyberspace, the president said "I've always been a strong supporter of open Internet use. I'm a big supporter of non-censorship. "I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes." U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman read the question that President Obama said "was generated through the Web site of our embassy," and added that it was "selected … by I think one of the members of our U.S. Press corps." But that wasn't quite right. While Bloomberg reporter and White House Correspondents Association President Ed Chen was asked by an administration official to select a question, he declined. Instead he picked numbers from a bag that the White House ultimately used to get the Twitter question. Filed under: President Obama
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