Kenneth Neil Cukier Quotes

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that

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.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

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

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

The Great Firewall of China and the unrestricted surveillance by the National Security Agency illustrate a tendency for the state to assert its interests at the expense of individuals.

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.

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

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

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 Internet is a politically contested space.

Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

It is time the international community took a stand on Egypt's repeated violations of press freedom and the rights of Internet users…the United Nations should respond by disqualifying Egypt from hosting an Internet Governance Forum in 2009.