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 Read Quote
Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
If I were a Chinese dissident, I’d be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I’d also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia – run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company’s executives – is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America’s public spaces. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Increasingly, corporate executives who don’t speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people’s lives. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
