Julien Pain
Julien Pain
censorship chose heavy help helped languages needed people publish skills technical
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.
dream free internet
We had the dream that the Internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse. We see it was just a dream.
affects company country deals founded freedom ignore last stake
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.
accept chinese common human players position rather rights saying stick universal
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.
contracts department human kinds rights sure
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.
courting government provide risk
Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
attention expression freedom paid people realizing throughout
No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout the world is at stake.
april basis case chinese jailed last regularly sure works yahoo
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.
ban chinese comply justice negotiate possible request
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.
aware coming counteract filtering money provided taxpayers technology wasting
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.
accept against arena business china expense free goes internet open profit wrong
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.
call elections free half life maximum online
A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour.
denounce happening trying
We're just trying to denounce what's happening here,
change damage fear financial hit hope investing people run stop support yahoo
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.