01UndatedEven 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedAny new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.Rebecca MacKinnon / quote ↗
03UndatedTo have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.Rebecca MacKinnon / quote ↗
04UndatedIf they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.Rebecca MacKinnon / quote ↗
05UndatedYahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.Rebecca MacKinnon / quote ↗
06UndatedThanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.Rebecca MacKinnon / quote ↗
07UndatedThere 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 / quote ↗
