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Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my…

— Bill Gates

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We have not effectively found a way to regulate, whether it's social media or the Internet, and really put safety measures in place. What…

— Christopher Wylie

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

— Ethan Zuckerman

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what…

— Ma Jian

I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China… Neither membership in the…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

— Bill Gates

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

— Ted Lieu

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political…

— Michael Anti

“I look forward to the day when our country will be a land of free expression: a country where the words of each citizen…

— Evan Osnos

The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something…

— John Kiriakou

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for…

— Evgeny Morozov