Abuse Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

While I'm acutely aware that justice doesn't need a modifier and that not every bad thing that happens to me is a hate crime,…

— Adam Pearson

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

— Jamais Cascio

“All biological and artificial mechanisms -no matter how well designed- are vulnerable to malfunctions, failures, and breakdowns. Even if developmental processes are canalized against…

— Marco del Giudice

“The mechanisms that have traditionally been suggested for understanding companies can be divided into three broad categories: transaction costs, organizational structure, and competition in…

— Geoffrey West

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

— Herbert Simon

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law…

— Dennis C. Blair

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

— Marcus Buckingham