One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.

I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of their lives, their jobs, their creative works, and their identities over the course of a decade. Much of this increased freedom is thanks to economic engagement by the West.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.