Published Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

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

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

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

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

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

Every news organization needs a social media strategy.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

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

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

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