James Howard Kunstler Quotes

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats here in the nation's capital.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

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

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.

I have been asking for Canada to take cybersecurity and other issues seriously and ensure that Huawei is not allowed to contribute to our 5G infrastructure.

As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

We think of the Internet as a bottom-up phenomenon. There are people and countries that would like to treat it as a top-down institution; Americans resist that and I think rightfully so. It would cramp our style in terms of creativity, innovation, and so forth.

Cybersecurity is a new issue for the international community at large. First of all, the technologies are new and the attacks are invisible. Traditionally, if you perceived a threat, it could be seen. It was physical. But not in cyberspace.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.

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

Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.

Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.

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

It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.

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

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

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

In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues.