Assumed Quote by 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

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

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

— Michael Anti

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

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

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

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

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

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

— Michael Anti

China rightly identified consumer Internet as important and moved to protect it, and we need to do the same in India.

— Bhavish Aggarwal