Virginia Postrel Quotes

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.

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

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.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.

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

Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast, and print outlets as we organize for change.

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

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

I think we should not control the Internet.

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 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.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

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

I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.