Steve Chen Quotes

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

I don't care whether I am politically correct or not when I tweet.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

I love reading comments online.

Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.

I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

We all have the right to comment about each other.

YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.

I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else.

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

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.

On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing - and all the comments and everybody's upset, whereas a book, there's no comment section. There's no - there's nowhere for the audience to, you know, get mad at you for saying something.

When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.

The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!

If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet.

My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.

Twitter is now an anger video game for many users. It is the only platform on which people feel free to say things they'd never say to someone's face.

A huge potential audience, great interaction with your readers, the ability to see what people like and what they don't, the ability to see how people respond to what you're doing in real-time - there's just tons of great stuff that you get by being online.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

I'm really happy that YouTube is as complete and successful as it is, to the point where, when things do go wrong, they'll hear about it from every direction.

I used to think Medium was a pretty pure place and then the MAGA hats started showing up here too.