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Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.
Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.
Facebook has conquered much of the world.
The Internet is a politically contested space.
Every news organization needs a social media strategy.
Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.
Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.
Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.
Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.
Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.
A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.
The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.
QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.
Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.
So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.
Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.
There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.