Oh, What a Crummy Web We Might Weave
If We Don’t Get Serious About Protecting Our Digital Spaces, We’ll Get the Internet We Deserve
In 1997, Rebecca MacKinnon–who was at CNN’s Beijing bureau at the time–was having dinner with Chinese friends when she told them about a book she was reading. The book was about East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when German citizens suddenly got access to the files of the East German secret police, the Stasi. Germans were shocked to discover who had been informers. As MacKinnon told the story, one of her Chinese friends put his chopsticks down and said, “One of these days, something like that’s going …
