213 Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

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.

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.