"Fascinating and provocative...MacKinnon forcefully and passionately urges us to stake out our Internet rights before governments or corporations completely take those rights away from us."
—Publishers Weekly
“Cyber power and governance of the internet is one of the great unsolved problems of the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious area. It is well worth reading.”
—Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Future of Power
"A growing number of people throughout the world are counting on the Internet to move their countries in a more democratic direction. Consent of the Networked describes what's happening, successes and failures, what's next, and what needs to be done. It's the real deal."
—Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist
"The Internet poses the most complex challenges and opportunities for human rights to have emerged over the last decade. Rebecca MacKinnon’s book is a clear-eyed guide through that complexity.”
—Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland
"For nearly a decade, Rebecca MacKinnon has been at the center of evolving debates about how the Internet will affect democracy, privacy, individual liberties, and the other values free societies want to defend. Here she makes a persuasive and important case that, as with other technological revolutions through history, the effects of today's new communications systems, for human liberation or for oppression, will depend not on the technologies themselves but rather on the resolve of citizens to shape the way in which they are used."
—James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly
In Code Lawrence Lessig establishes that code is law and network architecture is politics. In Consent of the Networked, Rebecca MacKinnon becomes the modern day John Locke calling on those who control the code and architecture of the networks to understand, take responsibility and acknowledge the requirement for the Consent of the Networked. Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book defining this fundamentally new and important way to think about the future of citizenship in the digital age.
—Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
"Consent of the Networked is a must-read for anyone interested in freedom of personal and political expression in the 21st century. It's accessible, engaging, and periodically hair-raising. It should have the same impact on public awareness of the vital issues surrounding Internet freedom that "An Inconvenient Truth" had with regard to climate change."
—Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and former Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State
"Rebecca MacKinnon brings clarity and reason to the often fraught debates over the internet's social and political consequences. Hers is a voice to be listened to."
—Nicholas Carr, Author of The Shallows
