Al Yankovic Quotes

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, 'Gangnam Style' happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned.

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

The key thing for us at Twitter is to recognize our role as the provider of this open platform for free expression ... to recognize that the speech is not our own.... We feel we have a duty to respect and to defend these voices on the platform. The platform of any debate is neutral. The platform doesn't take sides.

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas and the ability to choose and search from among virtually unlimited sources. It is also the backbone of free enterprise and a vibrant global economy.

Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.