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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.
Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.
In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.
Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.
The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.
One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.
What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
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 soon.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web.
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.
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.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.
As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.
While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.
The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.
In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.
Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.
President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.
I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.