The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Sohu will protect you from yourself.

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.

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.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

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.

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

If China can't even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.

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.

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.

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

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.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.