Rebecca MacKinnon Censorship Quotations

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.