Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
