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Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs Picture Quote #1

Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its ‘population’ comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people’s online activities and identities Picture Quote #1

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Google’s entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized Picture Quote #1

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power Picture Quote #1

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The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us Picture Quote #1

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world’s people and not the other way around Picture Quote #1

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The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes) Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its ‘population’ comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people’s online activities and identities. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes) If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes) 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 Quotes) Google’s entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes) Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes) The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes) Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world’s people and not the other way around (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)

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