http://www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship/fellows/mackinnon_2009
According to the bottom of the NY Slimes article:
============Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a founder of Global Voices Online, is the author of the forthcoming “Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom.”===============
The New America Foundation is funded by George Soros. As I look at this list, I see a lot of foundation names I recognize.
http://newamerica.net/about/funding
$1,000,000+
The Ford Foundation
The New York Community Trust
The Rockefeller Foundation
$250,000-$999,999
Blue Shield of California Foundation
Broadmap, LLC
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Foundation to Promote Open Society
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
Peter G. Peterson Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Wendy and Eric Schmidt
Bernard and Irene Schwartz
$100,000-$249,999
Analytic Services, Inc.
Arizona State University
Atlantic Advocacy Fund, Inc.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Citi Foundation
Community Foundation for National Capital Region
Foundation for Child Development
William Gerrity
Google, Inc.
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
The Hauser Foundation
Leo Hindery
Carolyn and Jeffrey Leonard
Lumina Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
Surdna Foundation
United States Institute of Peace
Richard Vague
Visa Inc.
$50,000-$99,999
Consolidated Contractors Corporation
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Florence W. Haase
The HAND Foundation
The F. B. Heron Foundation
Knight Foundation
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ploughshares Fund
Proteus Fund
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
Save the Children
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Stuart Foundation
Urban Affairs Coalition
The Wyncote Foundation
$25,000-$49,999
Meena and Liaquat Ahamed
Arnhold Foundation
The ARCA Foundation
Neal Baer
Bank of Palestine
Colombe Foundation
Council on Foundations
The Family Independence Initiative
Fourth Freedom Forum
Zachary Karabell
Justine Kilpatrick
Ruth and David Levine
Levi Strauss Foundation
Lexington Institute
The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, Inc.
MARS
Lenny T. Mendonca
Open Society Institute
F. Noel Perry
Lois Quam and Matt Entenza
State of California
Van Evera Family Account
George Wasserman Family Foundation
$10,000-$24,999
American Association for Advancement of Science
American Osteopathic Association
Cynda Collins Arsenault
Anonymous
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
The Colorado Trust
The Commonwealth Fund
Consumer Electronics Association
Craigslist Charitable Trust
Global Environment Fund
Janelia Foundation
Richard Lounsbery Foundation, Inc.
Peter Marber
National Campaign to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy
Parsa Community Foundation
Ann Phillips
The George and Rhonda Salem Family Foundation
TICAS, Inc.
Time Warner Cable
United Nations Development Programme
Daniel Yergin
$1,000-$9,999
Barry B. Anderson
The Asia Foundation
Benton Foundation
Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Columbia University in the City of NY
Dan Crippen
Robert H. Dugger
The Ettinger Foundation
Victor H. Fazio
Free Press
Frank Fukuyama
Fund for the City of New York
George Mason University
Georgia State University
G. William Hoagland
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kerr Foundation
Alan E. Kligerman
Leif Haase
The Leon Foundation
Liberty Hill Foundation
London School of Economics
Benjamin Lumpkin
Myron Sponder Family Trust
PN Corporation
Jon Oberg
The Obernauer Foundation Inc.
Robert Rynbrandt
Rutgers University School of Law
Samuel Rubin Foundation
Social Science Research Council
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
T-Mobile USA
Guilt by association doesn’t invalidate the truth of the article. The government has no business censoring the internet, any more than they have business censoring the traditional press. That is something the right and left should be able to agree on.