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Rebecca MacKinnon
American
Journalist
Born:
Sep 16
,
1969
China
Government
Internet
People
Rights
World
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There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Respect
Law
Complicity
Lawlessness
Then
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Facebook
People
Country
India
Physical
Able
Online
Over
Identities
Executives
Exercise
Governance
May
Jail
Tax
Form
After
China
China And India
Inhabitants
Engineers
Users
Population
Activities
Million
Third
Programmers
Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Service
Military
Every
Secret
Secretive
Willing
About
Wire
Attendance
Attended
Attending
Highly
Journalists
Trade
Ball
None
Were
Ban
Comment
Branch
Reporter
Them
Agencies
Shows
Including
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Good
Censorship
Argument
Bad
Moral
About
More
More Or Less
Quickly
Pious
Accusation
Patriotic
Whether
Less
Who
As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.
Rebecca MacKinnon
You
Vote
Citizen
Community
Outcome
Direction
Push
Never
Surprised
Done
Anything
Interests
Engage
Your
Serve
Right
Things
Right Direction
Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Freedom
People
Internet
Bit
Test
Different
Means
Different People
Rorschach
Different Things
Things
It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Environmental
Obligations
Generation
Took
Recognise
Responsibilities
Terms
Another
Practices
Labour
Them
Companies
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Internet
Pay
Pay Attention
Seems
Vary
Attention
Clearly
Practices
Opinion
Does
Which
Chinese
Public
Chinese Government
Ignore
Choose
Public Opinion
Expressed
Based
Extent
Adapt
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Democracy
People
Internet
Think
Pluralism
Existing
Lot
Going
Just
Information
China
Bring
I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
People
Plenty
Data
Entrust
Like
Know
Does
Want
Either
China
Gong
Who
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Learning
Ghraib
About
Could
Supported
Abu
George
George W
George W. Bush
American
Whether
Bush
Avoid
One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Me
People
Internet
Google
States
Tell
One Thing
See
More
Chatter
Clear
Also
Blogs
Very
Than
Just
China
Chinese
Much
Users
Popular
United
United States
Among
Thing
The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Relationship
Internet
Increasingly
Citizens
Through
Between
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Internet
Divine
Like
Govern
Acting
Right
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Censorship
Complex
Systems
Propaganda
Obviously
Well
May
China
Coordinated
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
People
Social Media
Every
Local
Press
Topics
About
Online
Week
Hot
Almost
Particular
Town
Call
How
Authorities
Official
Stories
Chinese
Regional
Social
Used
Expose
Even
Village
Media
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
Legal
People
Sometimes
Political
Political Power
Social Media
Internet
Power
Thanks
Circles
Scandals
General
Having
Struggles
Taken
Longer
Major
Particular
Wrongdoing
Within
Without
Least
Accountable
Authorities
Reforms
Any
Hold
Place
Chinese
Social
Chinese People
Mechanism
Media
Now
Actual
Elite
Kept
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Relationship
Complicated
Syria
More
Bahrain
Obviously
Iran
Than
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Time
Digital
Action
Other
Side
Take
Wrong
Wrong Side
Global
Arms
Arms Race
American
Stop
Decisive
Decisive Action
Race
Multinational
The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Service
Social Media
Country
Nothing
Most
Redemption
Blocking
Movie
China
Title
Social
Popular
Searches
Media
Kept
Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Internet
Own
Elsewhere
Tools
Out
Solutions
Exactly
Seeking
Uncensored
Clear
Global
Access
Whether
China
Creating
Who
Users
Amount
Ad
Funds
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.
Rebecca MacKinnon
History
Culture
Important
Nile
River
Longest
Name
Economy
Important Role
German
Role
Egyptian
China
Chinese
Asia
Centuries
Use
Businesses
Many
Played
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Relationship
World
Censorship
Google
System
More
Stuck
Tense
Long-Term
Like
Look
Most
Elaborate
Chinese
Chinese Government
Forward
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Freedom
Internet
Will
Unlikely
India
Web
About
Percent
Only
Soon
Making
Issue
Anytime
Decisive
Uses
Population
President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Sometimes
Oppose
Odds
Congress
United Nations
President
Everything
Members
Obama
Administration
Finds
Principle
Does
Itself
Nations
Barack
Who
United
Nearly
A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Rights
Balance
Protection
Internet
Crime
Those
Security
Citizens
Russia
Proposals
Put
Countries
Over
Like
Global
Terms
How
Due
Lack
Currently
China
Mean
Enforcement
Aspects
Regulate
Forward
International
Including
Actually
Level
Consensus
Number
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