Misha Glenny Quotes

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

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

I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

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.

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

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

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

What we've seen over the last decade is we've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.

As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals and foreign adversaries that target that infrastructure.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.

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.