Laura Ramsey Quotes

It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.

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

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

Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society.

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

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around 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 federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

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 do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

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

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

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.

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.

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

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