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On Apple’s special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a ‘venture capital’ approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
It’s time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people’s lives (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn’t like (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In the future, ‘the networked’ will sometimes form alliances with the Silicon Valley companies against Congress, but sometimes we are going to want and need to target our campaigns for change at the companies themselves. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people’s lives. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn’t compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Right after September 11, 2001, there weren’t really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and there were a lot of conversations in which Chinese netizens were saying things like, ‘served them right.’ That was definitely not the official Chinese government policy - which condemned the terrorists. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
I don’t think there’s any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalising. I don’t think anything’s going to change in China until enough Chinese say, ‘We’re not going to play this game any more.’ (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world’s most elaborate system of censorship. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)
The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward. (Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes)