John Perry Barlow Quotes

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

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

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

The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.

'Free' is the museum show of our times, presaging the whole Wikileaks dustup, and it shows shifting power dynamics and a glimpse of the human in a world of flowing data.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

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

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

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.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

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

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.