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While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing. ”
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. ”
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation. ”
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 real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet. ”
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. ”
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent. ”
Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world. ”
I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments. ”
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity. ”