The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ...
REBECCA MACKINNON Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b...
REBECCA MACKINNON Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken...
REBECCA MACKINNON The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable...
REBECCA MACKINNON Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world...
REBECCA MACKINNON When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese w...
REBECCA MACKINNON The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med...
REBECCA MACKINNON There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
REBECCA MACKINNON Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe ...
REBECCA MACKINNON Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the worl...
CATHARINE MACKINNON As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mecha...
REBECCA MACKINNON Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
REBECCA MACKINNON Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech...
REBECCA MACKINNON Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of...
REBECCA MACKINNON Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.
REBECCA MACKINNON The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the ...
REBECCA MACKINNON I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin...
REBECCA MACKINNON The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where...
REBECCA MACKINNON The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global e...
REBECCA MACKINNON Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and ...
REBECCA MACKINNON If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it con...
REBECCA MACKINNON On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as...
REBECCA MACKINNON Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Goog...
REBECCA MACKINNON Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the off...
REBECCA MACKINNON Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authorit...
REBECCA MACKINNON Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep p...
REBECCA MACKINNON There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds t...
REBECCA MACKINNON It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a fee...
CATHARINE MACKINNON The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
REBECCA MACKINNON Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people...
REBECCA MACKINNON I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.
RODERICK MACKINNON Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
REBECCA MACKINNON Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Commun...
REBECCA MACKINNON Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
CATHARINE MACKINNON Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in j...
CATHARINE MACKINNON In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admi...
CATHARINE MACKINNON In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category o...
CATHARINE MACKINNON In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and h...
CATHARINE MACKINNON In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not st...
CATHARINE MACKINNON If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in porn...
CATHARINE MACKINNON Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
CATHARINE MACKINNON All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a w...
CATHARINE MACKINNON Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge...
REBECCA MACKINNON It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abet...
REBECCA MACKINNON I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, bu...
REBECCA MACKINNON When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 19...
REBECCA MACKINNON The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but ...
REBECCA MACKINNON Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
REBECCA MACKINNON In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to ...
REBECCA MACKINNON Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street i...
REBECCA MACKINNON Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
REBECCA MACKINNON Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money i...
REBECCA MACKINNON There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least so...
REBECCA MACKINNON For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's...
REBECCA MACKINNON The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
REBECCA MACKINNON If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to th...
REBECCA MACKINNON While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended i...
REBECCA MACKINNON Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, mak...
REBECCA MACKINNON There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
REBECCA MACKINNON There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U....
REBECCA MACKINNON The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring free...
REBECCA MACKINNON 'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermedia...
REBECCA MACKINNON Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to...
REBECCA MACKINNON It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to p...
REBECCA MACKINNON The dollar is going to prove resilient, and we could see further gains. Higher rates have supported ...
NEIL MACKINNON We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age ar...
REBECCA MACKINNON Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for...
REBECCA MACKINNON It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China ...
REBECCA MACKINNON The budget is not being cut at all. We're stopping the overspending that has been taking place in th...
ROSS MACKINNON Anything that would suggest a deteriorating appetite for US financial assets would undermine the dol...
NEIL MACKINNON You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.
REBECCA MACKINNON Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to...
REBECCA MACKINNON One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech ...
REBECCA MACKINNON One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred ...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was thrilled to be on campus and excited to get a chance to meet with people. It's a great opportu...
BOB MACKINNON They told me they're going to bring in two other people and then they'll kind of huddle up. They sai...
BOB MACKINNON Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companie...
REBECCA MACKINNON We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.
REBECCA MACKINNON Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opa...
REBECCA MACKINNON Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
REBECCA MACKINNON So small footprint yet the shovelling jealous sea has not erased it.
You were for me the necess...
LACHLAN MACKINNON So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.
REBECCA MACKINNON Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.
REBECCA MACKINNON During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles lik...
REBECCA MACKINNON There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China ...
REBECCA MACKINNON It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to...
REBECCA MACKINNON There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pl...
REBECCA MACKINNON In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those reg...
REBECCA MACKINNON A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about...
REBECCA MACKINNON After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U...
REBECCA MACKINNON There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and w...
REBECCA MACKINNON Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.
REBECCA MACKINNON Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.
REBECCA MACKINNON Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.
REBECCA MACKINNON I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the Un...
REBECCA MACKINNON The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many...
REBECCA MACKINNON The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censors...
REBECCA MACKINNON It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pak...
REBECCA MACKINNON In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled alm...
REBECCA MACKINNON Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
REBECCA MACKINNON In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
REBECCA MACKINNON So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dog...
CATHARINE MACKINNON In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done t...
CATHARINE MACKINNON The way that the current education system is set up, the state requires students to take physical ed...
NATE MACKINNON However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be...
REBECCA MACKINNON We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT 'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
STEVEN SODERBERGH It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to...
STEVEN SEAGAL Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
STEVEN TYLER A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD