Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

About Rebecca MacKinnon:

Rebecca MacKinnon is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices Online. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.
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Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

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Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.

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Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

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Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

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The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

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There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

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It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.

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Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.

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There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

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Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

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Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.

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Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.

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The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.

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WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

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Author Bio

  • NameRebecca MacKinnon
  • DescriptionAmerican activist and journalist
  • BornSeptember 16, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionReporter; Journalist; Human Rights Activist