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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Every news organization needs a social media strategy.

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Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willin...

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The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

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As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.

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Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

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Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.

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China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

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So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

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I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

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Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

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One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.

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It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

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Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

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Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web.

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What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.

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We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

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We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

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The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of th...

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Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

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In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people ...

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Author Bio

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