Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

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

I think we should not control the Internet.

Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

Increasingly, I'm finding myself uncomfortable about how the Internet's developing, who's influencing its development, and who is not.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

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.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

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.

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

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

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

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

It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives: sending cops after everybody who attempts a risque or politically sensitive search, getting parents and teachers to do their jobs, or chasing down the origin of every offending link.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

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