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As corporations and countries square off for control of the Internet, the likely losers are us - unless we act to protect our freedoms. Facebook, Flickr, Research in Motion, Yahoo, Ericsson and Google: what do they have in common? They are technology companies that, while drawing the rhetoric of cyberutopianism, are nonetheless willing - even keen - to undermine the freedom of their users whenever it suits them. Many nations are no better: China, Russia, Iran and even the US spy on their citizens, crush free expression, and otherwise import all of government's worst habits into the digital frontier. In "Consent of the Networked", Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues passionately and convincingly that it is time for us to claim respect and protection for our rights and freedoms before they are sold, legislated, programmed and engineered away. As the Arab Spring has shown, it is possible to demand what's ours. But we must start now - time is running out.
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For nearly a decade, Rebecca MacKinnon has been at the center of evolving debates about how the Internet will affect democracy, privacy, individual liberties, and the other values free societies want to defend. Here she makes a persuasive and important case that, as with other technological revolutions through history, the effects of today's new communications systems, for human liberation or for oppression, will depend not on the technologies themselves but rather on the resolve of citizens to shape the way in which they are used . --James Fallows, National Correspondent,The Atlantic
Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world --Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
Cyber Power and governanve of the internet is on eof the great unsolved problems of the twent-first century. Rebecca MacKinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious era. It is well worth reading. --Joseph S. Nye, Jr Universtiy Distingushed Service Professor Harvard University
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Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world --Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
Cyber Power and governanve of the internet is on eof the great unsolved problems of the twent-first century. Rebecca MacKinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious era. It is well worth reading. --Joseph S. Nye, Jr Universtiy Distingushed Service Professor Harvard University
"An excellent survey of the Internet's major fault lines."-Wall Street Journal
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