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

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

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

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

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.

Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

A kid came up to me the other day and said, 'Hey, you're the guy on Scrubs!' Kid, I am Scrubs, and don't you forget it.