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Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebecca MacKinnon is a fellow at the Open Society Institute.
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Firewalls to Freedom
Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov Series: Human Rights 2009-02-24As contemporary authoritarian regimes learn how to manage and engineer information flows, promoting and protecting free speech in places like China and Russia is no longer a simple matter of circumventing formal censorship. As often as not, Big Brother takes the form of a shadowy cyber-attack or a government-paid Web commentator steering the discussion in a chat room.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 20535
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The Great Firewall of China
Rebecca MacKinnon Series: China World 2006-01-31Writing from 1930’s Shanghai, China’s great essayist Lu Xun once observed: “Today there are all kinds of weeklies. Although their distribution is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.” Muckraking broadsheets in the first half of the last century played cat-and-mouse games with Chinese government censors, ultimately helping to expose the corruption and moral bankruptcy of the Nationalist (KMT) government and contributing to the Communist victory in 1949.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 42530
