John Perry Barlow Quotes

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

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

The Internet in China is fully open and the Chinese Government manages the Internet according to the law. As for what you can and cannot watch, watch what you can watch, and don’t watch what you cannot watch.

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

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

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

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

I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.

I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

Pirate Party

Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society.

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.