Patrick Chappatte Quotes
The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.
Chappatte, Patrick. "The Power of Cartoons." TED, Sept. 2010.
At the time he wrote this, the Chinese government heavily censored the Internet. While there was an enormous unprecedented access to information, much was unavailable to most Chinese.
Patrick Chappatte (known simply as Chappatte) is a Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist known for his work for Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Sunday edition), the German news magazine Der Spiegel, and The New York Times International Edition. He also worked as an illustrator for the New York Times and as cartoonist for Newsweek. Many of his cartoons reflect events in Swiss and international news, such as the September 11 attacks, the rise of the Swiss People's Party, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.