[奥巴马]好吧,我现在请我的洪大使,现在有一个网民通过我们使馆网站提了一个问题。
Okay. All right? Jon -- I'm going to call on my Ambassador because I think he has a question that was generated through the Web site of our embassy. This was selected, though, by I think one of the members of our U.S. press corps so that --
[洪博培代网民提问]第一,有这么多互联网使用者的国家,有6000万写博客的人,你知道防火墙的事情吗?第二,我们是不是应该自由的使用TWITTER?
AMBASSADOR HUNTSMAN: That's right. And not surprisingly, "in a country with 350 million Internet users and 60 million bloggers, do you know of the firewall?" And second, "should we be able to use Twitter freely" -- is the question.
[奥巴马]首先让我说,我从来没有使用过TWITTER。我注意到一些年轻人,他们一直很忙,有各种各样的电子器材,很笨重。但是我还是非常相信技术的作用,非常重视开放性。在信息流动方面,我认为越是能够自由的信息流通,社会就变得越强,因为这样子,世界各地的公民能让自己的政府负责,有一个问责制度,他们自己会思考,这样会有新的想法,鼓励创造性。
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I noticed that young people -- they're very busy with all these electronics. My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone. But I am a big believer in technology and I'm a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information. I think that the