Rebecca MacKinnon Censor Quotations

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.