Communication Freedom Quotes

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in.

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".

People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973.

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.