So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.
It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
The Internet has become important on the world's stage.
The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.