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Rebecca MacKinnon

American Journalist

Born: Sep 16, 1969

China Government Internet People Rights World

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If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk. Rebecca MacKinnon

Legal Employees Lose Would Would-Be Risk Puts Doing Continue Exist Domain Cease Cease To Exist Owning Anything China Illegal Serious Basis

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet. Rebecca MacKinnon

Government Internet Building How Survive Model Authoritarian China

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding. Rebecca MacKinnon

Politics Allocation Over Lot Gets Next Congressional Who Funding

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda. Rebecca MacKinnon

People Tolerance Increasingly Propaganda Smack Very Anything Little

When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in. Rebecca MacKinnon

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous. Rebecca MacKinnon

You Facebook Rule Supposed Anonymous

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies. Rebecca MacKinnon

Criticism Has-Been About Rising Tide Foreign Been China Companies Treatment

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet. Rebecca MacKinnon

Government People Internet Twitter Other Other Countries Recognizing Hoped Countries Reach Does Up Expanding Contrary Growing Growing Up

It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them. Rebecca MacKinnon

Guard Everything Possible Would Would-Be Running Scenario High-Profile Operation Normal Anticipate Politically Controversial Anybody China Against Them

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks. Rebecca MacKinnon

Good Balance Protection Digital Free Free Speech Society Other Our Security Networks Democratic Democratic Society How Answers Hand Even Need Speech

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content. Rebecca MacKinnon

About Make Content Handling Choices Companies Users Extent

In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process. Rebecca MacKinnon

Problem Censorship Way System Know Due Been Authority Process Place China User Appealing Now Why Extent

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China. Rebecca MacKinnon

People Critical Understand West Lot China Chinese Why

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