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Rebecca MacKinnon was American activist and journalist. Rebecca MacKinnon is an American author, researcher, and Internet freedom advocate, and the co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. Read more on Wikipedia →

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