Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt – something that also happened in Xinjiang – I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market – which is a big enough challenge even for the established players – that nobody is thinking much about the longer run or the bigger global picture. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
People in China have a range of strong views about how children should be protected when they go online and whether the responsibility should be with the government, with parents, or somebody else. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted. Rebecca MacKinnon Read Quote
