Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced a bill on Nov. 21 to help bypass the Chinese communist regime’s internet censorship.
“As the United States continues to focus on economic, military, and technological competition with Beijing, we must not forget the people of China and their fight for access to information,” Cardin said in a statement.
Cardin noted that Chinese citizens are increasingly growing skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and seeking alternative sources of information, providing an “unprecedented opportunity to engage with the Chinese citizenry.”
The bill, titled Informing a Nation with Free, Open, and Reliable Media (INFORM) Act, aims to enable Chinese citizens to access information free from the CCP’s influence and censorship….