American - Journalist | September 16, 1969 -
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.
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A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights.
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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.
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Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.
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While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.
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We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.
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There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
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If China can't even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.
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Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
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If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.
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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
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