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The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

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

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.