Digital Equality Quotes

Net neutrality rules ensure an equal playing field on the web for everyone, from the start-up to the tech giant.

If we really just wanted to focus on making money, the first billion people who are already on Facebook have way more money than the next five or six billion people combined. It's not fair, but it's the way that it is. And, we just believe that everyone deserves to be connected, and on the Internet, so we're putting a lot of energy towards this.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

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.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

The Pirate Party believes it's time to think about digital rights rather than digital privilege.

We have to take a long view on net neutrality.

Net neutrality is at the core of what we love about the Internet. Put simply, it allows any individual or business equal access to online services.

We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.

There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows who's behind the screen so you can't tell I'm a 12-year-old.

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Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.

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

The Internet frees people to realize they don't have to live like slaves.