Rebecca MacKinnon

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.

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

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

I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market - which is a big enough challenge even for the established players - that nobody is thinking much about the longer run or the bigger global picture.

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.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

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.

As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.

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

The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.