Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens’ political and civil rights.
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.
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan’s reunification with China is drifting further and further away.
If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that’s enough, sometimes it’s not; it’s really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won’t find it sufficient.
It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
