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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Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

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In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.

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In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

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Facebook has conquered much of the world.

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It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

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It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.

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It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

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Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

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In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.

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Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

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Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

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Sohu will protect you from yourself.

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QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

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Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.

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One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

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Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

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The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

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There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

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There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

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The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

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The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

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Author Bio

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