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Awards. Goldsmith Book Prize. Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo.
- journalist, author, researcher
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Harvard University (1991)
- September 16, 1969 (age 54), Berkeley, California, U.S.
Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and demagoguery if we censor the internet and press. In this critical talk, she calls for a doubling-down on strong encryption and appeals to governments to better protect, not silence, the ...
Check out our 4-star rating on Charity Navigator. Rebecca MacKinnon is Vice President, Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia. Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom (2012), she is co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, and founding director of ...
Apr 23, 2013 · Rebecca MacKinnon. Follow. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom Paperback – April 23, 2013. by Rebecca MacKinnon (Author) 4.4 36 ratings. See all formats and editions. eTextbook.
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Founding Director, Ranking Digital Rights. Rebecca MacKinnon was the founding director of Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), a program that works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights.
Open Technology Institute. Reclaiming Free Speech for Democracy and Human Rights in a Digitally Networked World. Executive Summary. Policy Paper. Shutterstock. By. Rebecca MacKinnon. Nov. 19, 2020. Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) content is no longer updated on New America’s website. RDR is now located at the World Benchmarking Alliance.