We're just trying to denounce what's happening here.
Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
I think that the government is scared of what might happen in the country, if real information is given to the people.
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.
We had the dream that the Internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse. We see it was just a dream.
No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout the world is at stake.
We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.
A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour.
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.
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