Julien Pain Quotations

We want them to see that they helped the Chinese police to jail people, human beings.

The only way to really hit Yahoo and make them change is to get the support of the financial markets. We hope people will stop investing in Yahoo because they fear that in the long run it could damage their financial interests.

We're just trying to denounce what's happening here,

No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout the world is at stake.

Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

What we want is from now on, these companies, these contracts should be monitored by the Department of Commerce. That's the only way to make sure they don't collaborate on these kinds of human rights abuses.

I think that the government is scared of what might happen in the country, if real information is given to the people.

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

We were sure the case of Shi Tao, who was jailed for 10 years last April on the basis of Yahoo-supplied data, was not the only one. Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police.

This way, any request from the Chinese would have to be supervised by ... American justice. They shouldn't comply with all Chinese demands. It's possible to negotiate with the Chinese authorities. The Chinese wouldn't ban such an important company.

We had the dream that the Internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse. We see it was just a dream.

We chose the languages because we wanted to help people, and the people that needed to be helped were Chinese-speaking person, Farsi-speaking person and Arabic-speaking person, ... In these countries, the censorship was so heavy that you need technical skills to circumvent the censorship and to be able to publish things anonymously.

There's recognition at last about how much there is at stake here. If you're a country founded on freedom of expression, you can't just ignore that when making deals with other countries. What a company does in the world affects the world.

Rather than accept everything the Chinese authorities says, the big players could find a common position saying they will stick to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their own values.

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

This is a real shame. When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet.

A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour.

It's surreal. They are wasting taxpayers' money on coming up with technology to counteract filtering provided by U.S. companies. We think taxpayers in the U.S. should be aware of what is going on, because it is their money.

It's wrong to accept what China is doing just to do business in the country. There's profit to be made, but it comes at the expense of free speech, and, ultimately, it goes against the very idea of the Internet as an open arena for communication.