Nate Mackinnon quote: "The way that the current education system is set up, the state requires students to take physical education and pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to graduate from high school. It would be quite a challenge to require a program like this."

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world...
REBECCA MACKINNON

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese w...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med...
REBECCA MACKINNON

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

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the worl...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mecha...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
REBECCA MACKINNON

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.
REBECCA MACKINNON

The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global e...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it con...
REBECCA MACKINNON

On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Goog...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the off...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authorit...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep p...
REBECCA MACKINNON

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds t...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a fee...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people...
REBECCA MACKINNON

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.
RODERICK MACKINNON

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Commun...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
CATHARINE MACKINNON

Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in j...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admi...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category o...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and h...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not st...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in porn...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
CATHARINE MACKINNON

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a w...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abet...
REBECCA MACKINNON

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, bu...
REBECCA MACKINNON

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 19...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
REBECCA MACKINNON

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street i...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money i...
REBECCA MACKINNON

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least so...
REBECCA MACKINNON

For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
REBECCA MACKINNON

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to th...
REBECCA MACKINNON

While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended i...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, mak...
REBECCA MACKINNON

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
REBECCA MACKINNON

There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U....
REBECCA MACKINNON

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring free...
REBECCA MACKINNON

'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermedia...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to p...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The dollar is going to prove resilient, and we could see further gains. Higher rates have supported ...
NEIL MACKINNON

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age ar...
REBECCA MACKINNON

You can peg a lot of the decisions on that caucus.
STEVEN MACKINNON

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The budget is not being cut at all. We're stopping the overspending that has been taking place in th...
ROSS MACKINNON

Anything that would suggest a deteriorating appetite for US financial assets would undermine the dol...
NEIL MACKINNON

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to...
REBECCA MACKINNON

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

I was thrilled to be on campus and excited to get a chance to meet with people. It's a great opportu...
BOB MACKINNON

They told me they're going to bring in two other people and then they'll kind of huddle up. They sai...
BOB MACKINNON

Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companie...
REBECCA MACKINNON

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opa...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
REBECCA MACKINNON

So small footprint yet the shovelling jealous sea has not erased it.
You were for me the necess...
LACHLAN MACKINNON

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.
REBECCA MACKINNON

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles lik...
REBECCA MACKINNON

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China ...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to...
REBECCA MACKINNON

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pl...
REBECCA MACKINNON

In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those reg...
REBECCA MACKINNON

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about...
REBECCA MACKINNON

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U...
REBECCA MACKINNON

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and w...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.
REBECCA MACKINNON

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.
REBECCA MACKINNON

I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the Un...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many...
REBECCA MACKINNON

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censors...
REBECCA MACKINNON

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pak...
REBECCA MACKINNON

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled alm...
REBECCA MACKINNON

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
REBECCA MACKINNON

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
REBECCA MACKINNON

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dog...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done t...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be...
REBECCA MACKINNON

I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k...
NATE BERKUS

I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver ...
NATE BERKUS

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the...
NATE BERKUS

I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from '...
NATE TORRENCE

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before Ti...
NATE TORRENCE

I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... ...
NATE TORRENCE

I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
NATE TORRENCE

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'G...
NATE TORRENCE

People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and ...
NATE TORRENCE

Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that in...
NATE TORRENCE

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
NATE TORRENCE

To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
NATE TORRENCE

I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
NATE TORRENCE

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you sh...
NATE SILVER

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking ...
NATE SILVER

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they a...
NATE SILVER

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
NATE SILVER

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wr...
NATE SILVER

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
NATE SILVER

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
NATE SILVER

You get steely nerves playing poker.
NATE SILVER

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things...
NATE SILVER

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pur...
NATE SILVER

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
NATE SILVER

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
NATE SILVER

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an...
NATE SILVER

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library ...
NATE SILVER

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses...
NATE SILVER

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
NATE SILVER

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
NATE SILVER

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
NATE SILVER

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and ...
NATE SILVER

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
NATE SILVER

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold strea...
NATE SILVER

It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with ...
NATE RUESS

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pr...
NATE RUESS

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anym...
NATE RUESS

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest....
NATE RUESS

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
NATE RUESS

I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything lik...
NATE RUESS

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than...
NATE RUESS

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shoul...
NATE RUESS

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good v...
NATE RUESS

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, beca...
NATE RUESS

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
NATE RUESS

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
NATE RUESS

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well someti...
NATE RUESS

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ...
NATE RUESS

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically ...
NATE RUESS

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin...
NATE RUESS

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and tu...
NATE RUESS

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering abou...
NATE RUESS

My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a ...
NATE RUESS

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the ...
NATE RUESS

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I h...
NATE RUESS

My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She...
NATE ROBINSON

When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told...
NATE ROBINSON

We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking...
NATE ROBINSON

I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.
NATE ROBINSON

I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
NATE ROBINSON

I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
NATE ROBINSON

Fans are awesome.
NATE ROBINSON

The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
NATE ROBINSON

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for...
NATE ROBINSON

Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th...
NATE ROBINSON

I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
NATE ROBINSON

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste...
NATE ROBINSON

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them ...
NATE ROBINSON

Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for...
NATE ROBINSON

There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do tha...
NATE ROBINSON

Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
NATE ROBINSON

I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every tim...
NATE ROBINSON

My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high sc...
NATE ROBINSON

Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money alway...
NATE ROBINSON

I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
NATE ROBINSON

I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free ...
NATE ROBINSON

You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ...
NATE ROBINSON

'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
NATE POWELL

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
NATE POWELL

Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full...
NATE POWELL

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay ...
NATE POWELL

My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ...
NATE POWELL

We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l...
NATE POWELL

The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b...
NATE POWELL

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own...
NATE POWELL

Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL

The way that the current education system is set up, the state requires students to take physical education and pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to graduate from high school. It would be quite a challenge to require a program like this.

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The way that the current education system is set up, the state requires students to take physical education and pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to graduate from high school. It would be quite a challenge to require a program like this.

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