Rebecca MacKinnon

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

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

The U.S. Relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

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