Tag: freedom

  • If Netizens United: Rebecca MacKinnon’s Consent of the Networked

    If Netizens United: Rebecca MacKinnon’s Consent of the Networked

     A review of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom (Basic Books, 2012), by Rebecca MacKinnon Chinese journalist Shi Tao was jailed in 2005 after Yahoo provided Chinese state security agents with emails he had sent on a Yahoo China account. The emails had alerted a New York web editor of a recent…