Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
MacKinnon, Rebecca. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. Basic Books, 2012.
Video and pirated copies got out, and were more widely distributed than if the film had been released.
A theater arts program that operated nationally under the WPA. Some of the more politically active artists started using the projects to express their political ideas. Flanagan had promised that it would not be to Harry Hopkins who in return promised that there would be no Federal censorship of the Federal Theater. Despite their best intentions, neither of them could keep their promises.
The Red Scare had affected much of the country. Congressman Thomas was the Chair of The House Un-American Activities Committee which had frightened much of the country claiming that the Communists had infiltrated the government. But when facts and proof were demanded, they came up with some workers in the Hollywood film industry who had gone to communist meetings and some who had joined the party before the War when The Great Depression was still plaguing the country. The Hollywood and TV executives caved in to the political demagogues and fired and blacklisted not only the communists but those who refused to testify. The actors and musicians could not work for several years until the country came to its senses, but the screenwriters wrote under false names. At least one Academy award was won that way.
Rebecca MacKinnon 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. She is on the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.
