John Battelle Quotes

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

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

I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

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 don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.

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

Cyberspace

The Senate trying to govern cyberspace is analogous to King George believing he could still govern the colonies even though he had never been there.

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

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

We think of the Internet as a bottom-up phenomenon. There are people and countries that would like to treat it as a top-down institution; Americans resist that and I think rightfully so. It would cramp our style in terms of creativity, innovation, and so forth.

I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.

Google, Facebook, and the thousands of other companies that seek to join their ranks do more every day to collect data about you and I than any surveillance state could ever accomplish. They track our behavior, our communications. The moment to moment decisions we make in every room of our house

People voluntarily surrender personal and seemingly private information to trans-national corporations which exploit that data for profit. Few think twice about it.

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

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.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.

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.

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.