Free Speech Quotes - Page 18

• It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Hate, Confused, Law

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• Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

  Mike Godwin

  Roles, Computer, Internet

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• The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Editors, Quality

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• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  Reed Hundt

  Fcc, Justice, Competition

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• The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Public Opinion, Elude

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• People need to buy and want to. The selling itself becomes the entertainment, the sought-after good... In the Internet world there won't be any other way to peddle. To be successful advertising itself will have to supply real value to the consumer.

  Peter W. Huber

  Real, Successful, People

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• Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Cyberspace, World

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• Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.

  Russ Feingold

  Children, Internet Users, Computer

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• We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.

  Richard A. Clarke

  Country, Thinking, Internet

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• In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics are perceived. Campuses are a main flashpoint of the post-2016 culture wars about free speech, racism, and elite privilege. That's undeniable.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  War, Racism, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

  Newt Gingrich

  Internet, Broadcasting, Enterprise

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• It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Brother, Internet, Bigs

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• Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

  Mark Cuban

  Stories, Internet, Stealing

  "Streams of consciousness" by Joe Ashbrook Nickell, www.wired.com. October 8, 1998.

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• Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Eye, Technology

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• I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.

  Brad Templeton

  Real, Thinking, Law

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• ... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

  Larry Ellison

  Mistake, Successful, Greed

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• That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Games, Play

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• Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Wind, Age

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• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

  Mike Godwin

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Firsts

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• I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

  Brigham Young

  Hate, Government, Land

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• Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

  David Porush

  Communication, Technology, Culture

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• The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

  John Perry Barlow

  Internet, Feels

  "John Perry Barlow – Cyber Cowboy (The Civilization of Cyberspace #1)". Interview with John Gerstner, www.johngerstner.com. May 11, 2017.

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• Redefine the possible.

  Stewart Brand

  Internet

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• Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.

  Steve Martin

  Distance, Communication, Light

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• Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, Bills, Internet

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