Rebecca MacKinnon is an Internet policy researcher, and co-founder of Global Voices, the international blogger network. She's also formerly CNN's Bureau Chief in Beijing and Tokyo. Her brand new book is called Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. She argues that just as democracies have 'consent of the governed' so the Internet requires that private corporations and governments have 'consent of the networked'.

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