We’re going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
During the 1980s, when Japan’s economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like ‘Japan is Number One,’ most Japanese college students didn’t make the effort to become fluent in English. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government’s censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
