Helping China's Censors

March 9, 2006 | This article appeared in the March 27, 2006 edition of The Nation.

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The Global Online Freedom Act should be the beginning of a conversation about what needs to be done to prevent US Internet and technology firms from contradicting American values.

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon is a research fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is a former...

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