American - Journalist | September 16, 1969 -
If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
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To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.
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If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.
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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.
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Sohu will protect you from yourself.
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The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.
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China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
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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.
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Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
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There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
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Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.
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