Is Hillary Clinton launching a cyber Cold War?

[Commentary] Some reflections on Secretary of State Clinton's Internet Freedom address:

1) She managed to work in a lot of Cold war rhetoric.

2) There was very little about the evolving nature of Internet control (e.g. that controlling the Internet now includes many other activities -- propaganda, DDoS attacks, physical intimidation of selected critics/activists).

3) Sec Clinton was too soft on Chinese leaders, essentially granting them the right to censor whatever they'd like simply because they have "different views."

4) The U.S. government really needs to develop and then adopt a more coherent view on the ethics of cyberwarfare; otherwise, the U.S. State Dept will be accused of duplicity. We can't be tolerating cyberattacks in one context and criticizing them in another context.

5) Kudos for pointing out that authoritarian states are also avid consumers of new technologies, which they use to repress and identity dissent -- but she could have developed this idea much further, pointing out numerous fallacies in how we think about the liberating potential of information.

6) The speech made it obvious that State Department officials do not have a coherent view on online anonymity.

7) Sec Clinton also didn't mention the most obvious reform the State Department can push forward: making it easier for American tech companies to operate in authoritarian countries that currently have U.S. trade sanctions imposed on them.

8) The speech lacked any coherent intellectual vision underpinning the State Department's digital strategy.