Patrisse Cullors Quotes

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

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

Washington faces a simple choice: allow the Internet to remain as an engine of innovation, a platform for speech in even the harshest tyrannies, and a unified connection for people across the globe—or cede control of the Internet to service providers motivated by their parochial interests.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.

The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.

The net is a very precious thing. I hate it when people discuss measures to limit it.

The Internet is working because it's free and open, and there's no discrimination. Without these rules, ISPs could treat content differently based on commercial interests or even ideology.

I think we should not control the Internet.

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

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

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