Free Speech, Blasphemy, and the Anti-Muslim YouTube Video

Join the Global Internet Freedom and Human Rights Project as they host Rebecca MacKinnon.

Rebecca MacKinnon is a journalist and activist whose work focuses on the intersection of the internet, human rights, and foreign policy. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. She is also the co-founder of Global Voices Online, a global citizen media network, and a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative to advance principles of freedom of expression and privacy in the information and communications technology sector. Ms. MacKinnon worked as a journalist for CNN in Beijing for nine years, serving as CNN's Beijing bureau chief and correspondent, and then as CNN's Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent.