Activities Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

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

“For a period of several years in the mid-1990s the Chinese talked very openly, for a Communist police state, about what they had learned…

— Richard A. Clarke

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

“High technology and the Internet, however, have a dark side, as far as China’s leaders are concerned. They now know that the Falun Gong…

— Gordon G. Chang

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

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The government of China has admitted that they've been involved in cyber infiltrations around the world and in governments.

— Andrew Scheer

“The drumbeat of American accusations against Chinese Internet device manufacturers was unrelenting. In 2012, for example, a report from the House Intelligence Committee, headed…

— Glenn Greenwald

The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter…

— Ai Weiwei

Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our…

— Andre Vltchek