19 Quotes by Julien Pain

This way, any request from the Chinese would have to be supervised by ... American justice. They shouldn't comply with all Chinese demands. It's possible to negotiate with the Chinese authorities. The Chinese wouldn't ban such an important company.

We had the dream that the Internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse. We see it was just a dream.

We chose the languages because we wanted to help people, and the people that needed to be helped were Chinese-speaking person, Farsi-speaking person and Arabic-speaking person, ... In these countries, the censorship was so heavy that you need technical skills to circumvent the censorship and to be able to publish things anonymously.

There's recognition at last about how much there is at stake here. If you're a country founded on freedom of expression, you can't just ignore that when making deals with other countries. What a company does in the world affects the world.

Rather than accept everything the Chinese authorities says, the big players could find a common position saying they will stick to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their own values.

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

This is a real shame. When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet.

A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour.

It's surreal. They are wasting taxpayers' money on coming up with technology to counteract filtering provided by U.S. companies. We think taxpayers in the U.S. should be aware of what is going on, because it is their money.