Digital Rights Activism Quotes

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

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

Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe.

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.

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

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