In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out… — 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