American - Journalist | September 16, 1969 -
A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that companies should be thinking about when they sell their technologies around the world.
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I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalising. I don't think anything's going to change in China until enough Chinese say, 'We're not going to play this game any more.'
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Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.
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It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.
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There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
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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.
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Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.
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Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
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Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.
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There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.
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Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.
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