WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the bipartisan Jimmy Lai Internet Freedom Act to assist the people of Hong Kong in circumventing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censorship and maintain access to a free and open internet.
The bill is named in honor of Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and publisher who was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Hong Kong court after being convicted under Beijing's National Security Law. The legislation responds to the CCP's continued erosion of Hong Kong's freedoms and expanding efforts to restrict access to information online. The bill notes that Beijing has used its ...