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“So why is Chinese social networking booming despite the censorship? Part of the reason is the Chinese language. Posts on Twitter and Twitter clones…

— Michael Anti

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

You might be tempted to think that China has a Streisand-effect problem, in which trying to censor an event creates even more publicity. But…

— Zeynep Tufekci

China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with…

— Ai Weiwei

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

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government…

— John Palfrey

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Ethan Zuckerman

On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can…

— Naval Ravikant

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

— John Palfrey

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

— Bill Gates