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It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.