Consent of the Networked

The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom

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Recommended by Danielle Citron, Gady Epstein, and 2 others. See all reviews

Ranked #27 in Internet

The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web's empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. In Consent of the Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it is time to fight for our rights before they are sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. Every day, the corporate sovereigns of cyberspace (Google and Facebook, among... more
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Danielle Citron As @rmack described in her powerful book Consent of the Networked, it is digibonapartism. So worth a reread especially today as you note with China as a leader in this effort. @imran_malek Just read the book in our free speech in a digital age class. Always illuminating. https://t.co/N7y7cDgGGF (Source)

Gady Epstein Rebecca, used to be a [CNN] journalist here. Her work on the internet in China and on internet freedom in general has been very important in the field and a lot of people have cited her work. Her book provides a sober context for understanding how the Chinese internet works. (Source)

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