Top 100 Mackinnon's Quotes

#1. Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #20344
#2. While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #23382
#3. The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #41206
#4. If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #46608
#5. Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #50491
#6. In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #51507
#7. In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #53831
#8. Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #71742
#9. There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #81516
#10. Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #85912
#11. All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN

Jessica Valenti

Mackinnon's Quotes #87271
#12. We're at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that's compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #90298
#13. The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #93725
#14. There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #95661
#15. Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #96717
#16. Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #97110
#17. Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #115821
#18. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #119658
#19. Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #120079
#20. We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #133290
#21. There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #137286
#22. As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #141554
#23. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #154122
#24. If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #162908
#25. Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #177235
#26. Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #179283
#27. I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #182060
#28. Personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Donald M. MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #195290
#29. Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #202786
#30. The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #212004
#31. It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #228199
#32. If you appreciate what you have you will always be happy.

Cinda Crabbe MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #236345
#33. Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #243356
#34. If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #247481
#35. So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #257981
#36. Facebook and Google are battling over who will be our gateway to the rest of the Internet through 'like' buttons and universal logins - giving them huge power over our online identities and activities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #269020
#37. I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #271046
#38. Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #274397
#39. In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #277881
#40. People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #295767
#41. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #303969
#42. Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #305289
#43. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #317898
#44. Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #318379
#45. Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #320963
#46. Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #337943
#47. I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalising. I don't think anything's going to change in China until enough Chinese say, 'We're not going to play this game any more.'

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #345449
#48. The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #356381
#49. Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #376011
#50. The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #405203
#51. Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #416064
#52. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

Mackinnon's Quotes #548957
#53. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #576192
#54. There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #601820
#55. An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #610333
#56. Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #715042
#57. Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #777625
#58. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #787581
#59. [W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #834697
#60. Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

Catherine Mackinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #933654
#61. It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #961426
#62. It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #965724
#63. The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #966895
#64. There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1097019
#65. There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1109917
#66. There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1121365
#67. Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1123149
#68. In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1135093
#69. It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1136972
#70. Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1154327
#71. 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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1169897
#72. Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1181868
#73. In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1183818
#74. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1270684
#75. Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1280651
#76. In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1297438
#77. There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1337806
#78. On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1337865
#79. After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1386411
#80. Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that companies should be thinking about when they sell their technologies around the world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1428356
#81. President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1436579
#82. Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1445778
#83. During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1460412
#84. One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1467998
#85. Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.

Roderick Mackinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1468156
#86. The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1485577
#87. Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1513288
#88. China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1535781
#89. It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1539532
#90. Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1585964
#91. On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1645674
#92. Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1658331
#93. Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1692945
#94. When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1698529
#95. After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1727060
#96. For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1737164
#97. Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1768332
#98. Despite the Obama administration's proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of surveillance technologies it is sourcing and purchasing - or about what other governments are purchasing the same technology.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1784572
#99. WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1788939
#100. It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

Catharine MacKinnon

Mackinnon's Quotes #1878846

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