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Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:21 PM

Rebecca MacKinnon

Type: Person

Name: Rebecca MacKinnon

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 3 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Government pressure affecting Internet social networks—forum

Filed Under: Internet, Social networking, censorship, Technology (general), Computing & Information TechnologySHARM EL-SHEIKH – Government pressure on companies linked to social media networks is threatening to infringe civil liberties, an Internet forum ... [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Social Networks, Rebecca MacKinnon, Censorship, Internet Forum

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Rod Beckstrom

Icann Vote Paves Way For More Multilingual Internet

The organization that coordinates the world's Internet traffic has taken a big step toward a more multilingual Web. Internet domain names are about to start speaking local languages around the world.The non-profit corporation known as ICANN acts as a ... [Turkish Weekly - 10/31/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Rebecca MacKinnon

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Baidu.com Inc

.-ý is coming, and China is pleased

The , for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shake-up: for the first time ever Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, .cn and countless others, people who speak and write , Korean, ... [CNET Asia - 10/31/2009]

Entities: China, Rebecca MacKinnon, Baidu.com Inc

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents

China: crackdown on public pajama-wearers

Shanghai will host the World Expo next year, and city officials are preparing for the influx of foreigners with a campaign to ban citizens from wearing their pajamas out in the streets. An article in the Chengdu Business Daily expresses outrage over the ... [Boing Boing - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Shanghai, China, Rebecca MacKinnon

First Reported 06/21/2009 - Updated 06/21/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Facebook Inc

Technology is a weapon for governments, reformers in Iran, China

In Iran, technology is being celebrated as a powerful democratizing force, as activists use Twitter and Facebook to rally opposition to a disputed election. But in China, it is being used as a tool of control as the government forces PC makers to install ... [SiliconValley.com - 06/21/2009]

Entities: Iran, Facebook Inc, China, Censorship

First Reported 06/29/2009 - Updated 06/29/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Sony Corporation

Sony Ships Green Dam-Equipped PCs with Disclaimer

Sony has begun shipping personal computers equipped with the Chinese-government mandated filtering software days before the July 1 deadline. Shipments of the PCs equipped with Green Dam software also include a disclaimer that Sony is not responsible for ... [NewsFactor Network - 06/29/2009]

Entities: Green Dam Youth Escort, Sony Corporation, Vulnerability, Rebecca MacKinnon

First Reported 07/09/2009 - Updated 07/09/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

China tries new openness

BEIJING - WHEN riots broke out in the restive west this week, China took a different tack with foreign journalists: Instead of being barred, reporters were invited on an official tour of Xinjiang's capital. Tight supervision despite access DESPITE the ... [Straits Times - 07/09/2009]

Entities: Uighurs, China, Urumqi

First Reported 09/30/2009 - Updated 09/30/2009 - 1 Documents

China Looks to Technology, Diplomacy for Future

The People's Republic of China has come a long way since its founding in 1949, going from an impoverished state to an economic powerhouse. In the coming years, many Chinese expect technology and greater international involvement to establish their country ... [Truth News - 09/30/2009]

Entities: China, Rebecca MacKinnon, International Monetary Fund, Gary Locke

First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Calls Grow for Web Freedoms

Chinese Internet users want online curbs lifted.AFPA man surfs the Internet in Beijing, June 15, 2009.HONG KONGOnline writers and activists in China are calling on the government to extend protection to the country's 300 million netizens as they seek ... [Radio Free Asia - 10/12/2009]

Entities: China, Human Rights Day, Rebecca MacKinnon, Sarah Jackson-Han, Surveillance

Quotes

"there is no jurisdiction on the planet in which companies do not come under some kind of pressure from government in some way to do things that arguably may infringe on the civil liberties of users" Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, an international network of blogs said

Government pressure affecting Internet social networks—forum [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 11/18/2009]

...MacKinnon told a session dedicated to Social Media that "intelligent and thoughtful engagement" is required to deal with restrictive markets

State pressure affecting Internet social networks: forum [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/18/2009]

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Government pressure affecting Internet social n... [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 11/18/2009]
State pressure affecting Internet social networ... [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/18/2009]
State pressure affecting Internet social networ... [Yahoo! News - 11/18/2009]
.-ý is coming, and China is pleased [CNET Asia - 10/31/2009]
Icann Vote Paves Way For More Multilingual Inte... [Turkish Weekly - 10/31/2009]
Online censorship - Spiders lurking in the web [Ethical Corporation Online - 10/22/2009]
Calls Grow for Web Freedoms [Radio Free Asia - 10/12/2009]
China Looks to Technology, Diplomacy for Future [Truth News - 09/30/2009]
China tries new openness [Straits Times - 07/09/2009]
Sony Ships Green Dam-Equipped PCs with Disclaimer [NewsFactor Network - 06/29/2009]
Technology is a weapon for governments, reforme... [SiliconValley.com - 06/21/2009]
Great Firewall of China back in action [New Zealand Herald - 12/17/2008]

Blogs

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Craigslist’s Craig Newmark Joins Wikimedia Foun... [TechCrunch - 11/13/2009] Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation advisory ...
China: crackdown on public pajama-wearers [Boing Boing - 11/04/2009] Shanghai will host the World Expo next year, and city officials are preparing for the influx of foreigners with a campaign to ban citizens from wearing their pajamas ...
China: Censorship arms race escalates [Global Voices Online - 09/29/2009] Rebecca MacKinnon sums up the recent censorship measures in China, including the launching of new surveillant software and the recent attack of major censorship ...
You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but... [Scobleizer - 09/26/2009] OK, so when Twitter came out with its Suggested User List I went through a bunch of emotions. Hatred. Jealousy. Self loathing. Blaming. Anger. Denial. All that kind ...
Ai Weiwei, censorship and sacred facts [...My heart's in Accra - 09/14/2009] My friend Michael Anti posted a tweet earlier today about Chinese artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei: Ai Weiwei to undergo cranial surgery in Germany within ...

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