Joanne Harris Quotes
Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
Harris, Joanne (@Joannechocolat). "Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife." Twitter, 11 Feb. 2011.
At the time he wrote this, the Chinese government heavily censored the Internet. While there was an enormous unprecedented access to information, much was unavailable to most Chinese.
This seemingly beneficial objective began to develop serious opponents as Google began to index more and more of the knowledge of the society. Vested copyright interests, scholars, civil libertarians, privacy advocates, and forces in control of information all discovered consequences.
The Senator was referring to the difficulty that governments have in censoring and controlling information on the Internet.
See {68645} for his vision of how this would be done.
Wales was the founder of Wikipedia, the greatest source of information yet in world history. He mande this statement in reaction to the Erdogon Authoritarian President blocking Wikipedia from the Turkish Internet. The Oresident had objected to an article on The Turkish Armenian Genocide in 1915. Even a century later Erdogan did not want his people to lean the hidotry of what Turkey had done.
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, MBE is an English author especially known for her novel Chocolat (1999), which was adapted the following year for the film Chocolat.
