Absence Quote by Michael Anti

The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Bill Gates

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my…

— Ai Weiwei

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world…

— Ai Weiwei

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might…

— Amy Tan

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone…

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and…

— 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

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become…

— Ai Weiwei

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures…

— Yiyun Li

The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China…

— Noah Feldman