A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

I don't think any foreign Internet company can effectively compete against Chinese companies in the Chinese market. The regulatory environment is so difficult that it's almost impossible for foreigners to have an advantage over locals who have better political connections and who can manipulate the regulatory system much more effectively.

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.

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.

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.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them.

Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility.

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.

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.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.