Been Quote by Martin Jacques

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about…

— Marilyn Manson

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Bill Gates

Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.

— Michael Anti

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where…

— Martin Jacques

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world.…

— Zhang Ziyi

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

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

— Ethan Zuckerman