American - Journalist | September 16, 1969 -
We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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Facebook has conquered much of the world.
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In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains the empowering potential of social networks.
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Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.
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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.
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Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.
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Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.
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Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.
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One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
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The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.
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It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
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Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.
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