Eli Pariser Quotes

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

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

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.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

I think we should not control the Internet.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

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.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

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

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

To uphold state security China like many other countries of the world has placed some restrictions on the Internet to protect the freedom of the majority of the people.

To go back to a 1950s voice mentality with Title II and net neutrality would be a tremendous mistake for our country.

The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.

The net is a very precious thing. I hate it when people discuss measures to limit it.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.

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