About 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

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

Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so.

— Richard Branson

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

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world.…

— Zhang Ziyi

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?'…

— James Packer

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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Ethan Zuckerman

“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet) 99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west, either directly or retrospectively. No wonder, China…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

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