Trace Lysette Quotes

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 amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world — a Fifth Estate alongside the other power structures of society. People no longer have to rely on traditional gatekeepers in politics or media to make their voices heard, and that has important consequences.

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

Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

Now I know we have the power to incite change through the Internet - keep sharing our stories, our dreams, and our struggles.

Now is a time where social media allows people to be heard on a different level. Everyone is using their voice.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

The Internet is by the people, for the people.

I love the Internet, and I love that you can say whatever you want.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

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.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can't retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems.

The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.