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Researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab continue to be recognized as the leading global experts on internet censorship. In a recent article on the topic, David Drummon, chief legal officer of Google Inc. and senior vice president of corporate development, described the Citizen Lab's Open Net Initiative as a key institution in the push to monitor internet censorship and to develop effective circumvention tools. Published in the Washington Post, Mr. Drumman's article outlined Google's "four-part plan to help encourage access to online information" citing support of the Citizen Lab as one of its major pillars.

"�we're helping to build support online to protest repression. Google has provided resources to maintain and expand the work of groups such as the Open Net Initiative, which tracks global trends on Internet censorship, and the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto, which monitors censorship and helps develop circumvention tools�"

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original source the Washington Post