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Rebecca Mackinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices Online. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.

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After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U ...

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech ...

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least so ...

Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit f ...

I think one of the problems I think with a lot of people in high school is that people don't think o ...

I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more f ...

It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i ...

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious bec ...

The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going ...

The Internet is a politically contested space.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world ...

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practice ...

Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives ...

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.