The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.
For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one company controlling their window to the world of culture and entertainment.
Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.
I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.
The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.
Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.
I must have my share in the conversation.
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.
I was punished for communicating.
The United States may give up the Post Office when it sees fit, but while it carries it on, the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues.
I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.
Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.
Connectivity is a human right.
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.
