Rebecca MacKinnon

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

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.

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

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.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.

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

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

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.

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.