Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together. More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than every person having a voice.

While I worry about an erosion of truth, I don’t think people want to live in a world where you can only say things that tech companies decide are 100 percent true.

Rules about what you can and can’t say often have unintended consequences. … In everything we do, we need to make sure we’re empowering people, not simply reinforcing existing institutions and power structures.

Often, the people who call the most for us to remove content are often the first to complain when it’s their content that falls on the wrong side of a policy.

In times of social tension we pull back on expression, and we always end up believing that it was the wrong thing to do.

The most repressive societies have always restricted speech the most — and when people are finally able to speak, they often call for change.

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.

In times of social turmoil, our impulse is often to pull back on free expression. We want the progress that comes from free expression, but not the tension.

Democracy depends on the idea that we hold each others’ right to express ourselves and be heard above our own desire to always get the outcomes we want. You can’t impose tolerance top-down.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

We cannot allow political pressure from critics of unpopular ideas to inhibit the free exchange of ideas.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

The media, famously called the marketplace of ideas, is a failed market when a strong interest faces no like interest to generate competing ideas.

Once you “volunteer” and engage in self-censorship something happens to your conscience.

Most of us will agree that the right to say anything anywhere, no matter what the consequences, is carrying the right to free expression a bit too far. We run into controversy, however, when we try to draw the line between protected free expression and the kind of expression that should be prohibited because of the potential harm that it can do.