Freedom of Knowledge Quotes

Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

All market response results from a reduction of uncertainty.

Where States impose unlawful censorship through filtering and other technologies, the use of encryption and anonymity may empower individuals to circumvent barriers and access information and ideas without the intrusion of authorities. Journalists, researchers, lawyers and civil society rely on encryption and anonymity to shield themselves (and their sources, clients and partners) from surveillance and harassment. The ability to search the web, develop ideas and communicate securely may be the only way in which many can explore basic aspects of identity, such as one’s gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.