Ajit Pai Quotes

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

We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.

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.

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.

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

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

I support a free and open Internet.

The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet.

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

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

I think we should not control the Internet.

Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

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.

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.

I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

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

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

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.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.