US calls on Internet freedom for spying

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks." William Shakespeare said it first, back in 1602, in reference to the broken trust between Hamlet and his scheming mother Queen Gertrude who liked to think her crimes were undetectable, but it also applies to Lady Liberty in the latter-day United States of America.

American politicians love to promote the Internet; Hilary Clinton made a fine art of it, even Michelle Obama has now joined the fray.

"It is so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the Internet ... because that's how we discover the truth," she patronizingly told the net-savvy students at Peking University.