Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

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

Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.

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

China rightly identified consumer Internet as important and moved to protect it, and we need to do the same in India.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.

A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights.

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.

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.

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

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

I support a free and open Internet.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

I think it's both annoying and beneficial that there's so much freedom online.

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

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

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

I have been a strong supporter of a free and open Internet and have indicated this both prior to and subsequent to being sworn in as chairman of the F.C.C. I believe it is important to take concrete and reasonable steps to protect the freedom of users and entrepreneurs and businesses both small and large on the Internet.

The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.