Mitchell Baker Quotes

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That's worth celebrating and remembering.

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.

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 Internet is a lose-lose situation.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

I have been a strong supporter of a free and open Internet and have indicated this both prior to and subsequent to being sworn in as chairman of the F.C.C. I believe it is important to take concrete and reasonable steps to protect the freedom of users and entrepreneurs and businesses both small and large on the Internet.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

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.

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.

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

We think of the Internet as a bottom-up phenomenon. There are people and countries that would like to treat it as a top-down institution; Americans resist that and I think rightfully so. It would cramp our style in terms of creativity, innovation, and so forth.

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.

Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.

The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.