Vladimir Putin Quotes

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.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that

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.

I support a free and open Internet.

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

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.

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

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

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

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.

We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.

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

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.

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

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

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