Andrew Sullivan Quotes

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

The Internet allows me to be more free.

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 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.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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 Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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

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

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.

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 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.

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

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.

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

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

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

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free. Men in general are so constituted that there is nothing they will endure with so little patience as that views which they believe to be true should be counted crimes against the laws.

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