Subramanian Swamy Quotes

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

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

The First Amendment protects the Internet.

The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.

We're muddying the waters when we are having a discussion about what's going on on YouTube and Twitter and whether that's a matter of free speech. These are private platforms and they're allowed to decide what should and should not be on its platforms. It's not an issue of free speech.

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

The Internet allows me to be more free.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

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.

Everyone has the right to express his thoughts, to express himself as he wants.

In cyberspace, once privacy is breached, it may be breached worldwide. Free speech is not restricted to a street-corner audience, a locker room, or a limited-circulation publication, but travels the world.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?

People's access to social media should not permanently be restricted.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the Internet - no ifs.

I won't stop making videos and exercising my freedom of speech.