Beijing Olympics Advice From Ex-CNN Journalist
From Thomas Crampton’s blog: Journalists coming to cover the Beijing Olympics must balance convenience and paranoia when it comes to their digital security, according to Rebecca MacKinnon, former...
View ArticleAnalyst: China Internet Move Part of Global Trend
CNN interviews Rebecca Mackinnon, noted China Internet analyst and assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, on the recent Internet crackdown in China:...
View ArticleRebecca MacKinnon: What Does Charter 08 Mean? Too Soon to Tell…
Rebecca MacKinnon has posted a lengthy discussion of Charter 08 which includes commentary from people she has talked with inside China. She writes: Most people I’ve spoken with are not particularly...
View ArticleRebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov : Firewalls to Freedom
From the guatemala-times.com: Whenever manipulation efforts fail, cyber-attacks offer yet another powerful tool to crack down on dissent without triggering public accusations of formal censorship. This...
View ArticleETech: The Truth About China and Its Filthy Puns
From the Guardian: If you were reading the New York Times today, says Rebecca MacKinnon, you probably saw a story about a weird meme on the Chinese internet: the so-called “grass mud horse”. … The...
View ArticleRebecca MacKinnon: My Chat With Anti-CNN.com
On Monday, Rebecca MacKinnon met with the co-founder and web team of Anti-CNN.com. Rebecca summarizes some of the main points of the discussion on her website: Liu Jing then asked me why the Western...
View ArticleOriginal Government Document Ordering “Green Dam” Software Installation
On her blog, Rebecca MacKinnon summarizes the key stipulations of the government order requiring computer manufacturers to install filtering software on all computers made in or imported into China: 1....
View ArticleChina Is Not A Kindergarten
Gady Epstein reports in Forbes, from Beijing: If this was some official’s clever idea to show Chinese Internet users who is really in charge, it certainly hasn’t worked out as planned. The story of the...
View ArticleVideo: Danwei: China Blogger Conference 2009
Danwei has produced a video from the 5th annual Chinese blogger conference, held in November in Lianzhou, Guangdong, which includes interviews with bloggers Chang Ping 长平, Bei Feng 北风, Tiger Temple...
View ArticleWall Space: Interview with Rebecca Mackinnon
Last weekend, NPR’s On the Media interviewed Rebecca MacKinnon about the current state of Internet control in China. Listen here: : BOB GARFIELD: Now, actually on that subject, I wanted to ask you,...
View ArticleAuthority, Meet Technology: Will China’s Great Firewall Hold?
Slate Magazine and the New America Foundation held a roundtable discussion about China’s Great Firewall in the aftermath of Google’s recent challenge to Chinese censorship and the lead-up to Secretary...
View ArticleAi Weiwei: “If Twitter Censors, I’ll Leave” (Updated)
Fearsomely prolific Twitter user Ai Weiwei has written that “if Twitter censors, I’ll stop tweeting”, following news that the microblogging service is to selectively block posts to comply with local...
View ArticleEight Questions on the State of the Internet in China
China Real Time editor Josh Chin talks about the current state of the Internet in China with Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Beijing bureau chief, Global Voices founder and author of ‘Consent of the...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Great Firewall of China
In an article for Foreign Policy, Global Voices co-founder, former bureau chief of CNN Beijing, and digital free speech advocate Rebecca MacKinnon explores the paradoxes of China’s domestic censorship...
View ArticleFamily of Wen Jiabao Holds Hidden Fortune
A New York Times investigation into business dealings by the family of prime minister Wen Jiabao has prompted the blocking in China of the newspaper’s English and Chinese websites. The article, by...
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