Online Protest Quotes

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement, affirming the humanity and resilience of black communities.

The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.

In 1791, the right to bear arms to defend against an over-reaching government wasn't theoretical. Today, it's hard to imagine physical weapons serving the same purpose. But it's easy to see how hacktivists might - especially if you broaden the opponents to include hate groups and rapacious multinationals.

I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time.

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

Those Ron Paul supporters … will Tweet the heck out of something if they are not happy.

Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.

Hacktivists, roughly speaking, are individuals who redeploy and repurpose technology for social causes. In this sense they are different from garden-variety hackers out to enrich only themselves.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Hacktivism: The merger of hacking and political activism can wreak enormous havoc.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.