Alexandra Elbakyan Quotes

There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

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.

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

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

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Let's make sure that the Internet stays open to those who need it the most.

Of course there should be training sessions open to the public, but not always.

The Web belongs to everyone.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information.

Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact.

Everybody should learn sign language or, at least, 'Hello, do you need help? How are you?'

I support a free and open Internet.

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.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.

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.

Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can read as many papers as they want for free, and sending donations is their free will. Why Elsevier cannot work like this, I wonder?

Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open access to them, but to change legislation is such a way that free distribution of research papers will not face any legal obstacles.

I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this job well. Sci-Hub is helping them to fulfill their mission.

As efficiently as our phones connect us to one another, and as much as we take advantage of that, we must remember that they have the power to alienate us, too.