Rebecca MacKinnon quote: "While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The way that the current education system is set up, the state requires students to take physical ed...
NATE MACKINNON

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses,...
REBECCA STEAD

I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just ...
REBECCA SUGAR

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b...
REBECCA SOLNIT

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming...
REBECCA WELLS

I love hats and winter is the perfect time for them. I love winter time fashion.
REBECCA FERGUSON

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revoluti...
REBECCA SOLNIT

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig...
REBECCA WEST

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend...
REBECCA TRAISTER

You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was reall...
REBECCA FERGUSON

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma...
REBECCA TRAISTER

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

I hate women because they always know where things are.
REBECCA WEST

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be o...
REBECCA MAKKAI

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an...
REBECCA BLACK

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat...
REBECCA WEST

The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
REBECCA WEST

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for ...
REBECCA MAKKAI

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a g...
REBECCA WEST

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
REBECCA WEST

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST

When I get a brand new bag, I wear it for months and months.
REBECCA GAYHEART

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
REBECCA WEST

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
REBECCA WEST

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
REBECCA WEST

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ...
REBECCA MCNUTT

Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.
REBECCA MCNUTT

How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h...
REBECCA SOLNIT

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent...
REBECCA WEST

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA WEST

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi...
REBECCA WEST

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
REBECCA WEST

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
REBECCA FALLS

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's...
REBECCA WEST

He is every other inch a gentleman.
REBECCA WEST

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better...
REBECCA WEST

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sle...
REBECCA WEST

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.
REBECCA MCKINSEY

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of...
REBECCA PIDGEON

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for g...
REBECCA LOBO

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18...
REBECCA HALL

I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR

Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's...
REBECCA TRAISTER

It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
REBECCA HALL

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make...
REBECCA PIDGEON

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they ri...
REBECCA SOLNIT

It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, ...
REBECCA SOLNIT

Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou...
REBECCA TRAISTER

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermod...
REBECCA ROMIJN

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He...
REBECCA HALL

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
REBECCA HALL

It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off...
REBECCA TRAISTER

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
REBECCA LOOS

'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in...
REBECCA BLACK

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a...
REBECCA SOLNIT

When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they...
REBECCA MAKKAI

Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ...
REBECCA ROMIJN

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
REBECCA LOOS

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
REBECCA LOOS

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't b...
REBECCA LOOS

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame...
REBECCA LOOS

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
REBECCA LOOS

I did not know what my future was going to hold.
REBECCA LOOS

I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'...
REBECCA LOOS

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentif...
REBECCA WELLS

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they...
REBECCA HALL

Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men ...
REBECCA HALL

I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
REBECCA HALL

These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn...
REBECCA MCNUTT

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT

I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ...
REBECCA SOLNIT

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular...
REBECCA HALL

I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART

An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int...
REBECCA MCNUTT

While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

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While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

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