Rebecca MacKinnon - Thanks to the Internet in ...

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.

Rebecca MacKinnon

American Journalist

Born: Sep 16, 1969

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire

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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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