China Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

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

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

— Tom Lantos

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

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

— Liu Xiaobo

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference…

— Martin Jacques

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

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

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

— Michael Anti