Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy? — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content… — 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… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it… — 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
