Access Quote by 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

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they…

— Jacob Weisberg

A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain…

— Omar Bongo

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they…

— Sergey Brin

“The Kremlin also is determined, along with China, to wrest control of the internet from the American-based committees which run it now. It wants…

— Edward Lucas

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international…

— Vladimir Putin

Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and…

— Vint Cerf

Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide…

— Arthur L. Herman

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach…

— Caspar Weinberger

There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have a real…

— Misha Glenny

[Iranians] are destabilizing governments in the region. They continue to support Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon against Israel. A lot of work that we…

— Hillary Clinton