"Xiao Qiang" is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bi-lingual China news website. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Information (2012–present) and the Graduate School of Journalism (2003 - 2011), at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on technology and free flow of information in cyberspace, based in the School of Information, UC Berkeley.

Xiao teaches classes Digital Activism, Internet Freedom and Blogging China at both the School of Information and the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. In Fall 2003, Xiao launched China Digital Times to explore how to apply cutting edge technologies to aggregate, organize, and recommend online information from and about China. His current research focuses on mapping political discourses in Chinese cyberspace, measuring the state censorship and control of the Internet, and developing cloud-based technologies which can break through such censorship.

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The government's sole concern is to maintain its unchallenged grip on power at the cost of smothering the Chinese people's fundamental rights and freedoms.

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It's not that much of a surprise.

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People have much more information to access and have much greater ways to express themselves. They have to be careful, (but) the Internet is still playing a very positive role. The government is losing the battle to keep information out.

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They're holding so much personal information. No company can stand up to government policy alone.

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Government censorship can slow down, but can't reverse this trend.

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They should certainly be ashamed. They should be more than just ashamed. These people are sitting in prison for real time because Yahoo made the Chinese government's work much easier.

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Wang Dan is very excited and eager to start his new life in exile. Wang Dan is a modest, methodical and determined person. He wants to continue to contribute to China's democracy.

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The best censorship is self-censorship, and China relies on solid work by the secret police to make people censor themselves and keep the Internet under control.

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The flow of information is getting steadily freer, in fact. If I was in the State Council's information office, I certainly wouldn't think we had any reason to celebrate.

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