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One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.

Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.

Sohu will protect you from yourself.

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

The Internet is a politically contested space.

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Facebook has conquered much of the world.

In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.