Online Harm Quotes

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

I try not be an evildoer on the Internet.

I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good.

I worry about my grandchildren because the Internet can be brutal.

I never knew before getting involved with these investigations that so much of this activity was going on. I mean, obviously there are chat rooms, social networking sites, and it occurs. I just didn't ever think it occurred at this level.

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.

If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.

Twitter... can ruin your life.

I definitely feel like there's a lot of terrible things on the Internet, obviously. You can really pretty much find anything on there. It's pretty awful. And the crazy thing is that we don't even access that much of it - it's like the dark web or whatever. It's the other Internet that we don't even access.

The Internet can be used to hurt many people.

I'm not big on awareness about what's going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts.

It's not that Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter aren't really great mediums - let's be honest; technology allowing us to be able to contact people around the world is fantastic - but it's also so detrimental.

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

The whole social media can destroy people overnight.

An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

The Internet unfortunately means that, although a lot of truth and good stuff can spread as a result of the Internet, I think bad stuff and negativity spreads even more quickly.

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

Social media can be so damaging.

We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.