If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may... →
Rebecca MacKinnon
There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the... →
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime... →
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.
The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?