Internet Freedom Quotes

• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Nsa, People

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Article by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

  Julius Genachowski

  Government, Essentials, Roles

  "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

  Kim Dotcom

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, People, Helping

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

  Naomi Wolf

  Organization, Grassroots, Heavy

  "Organising against the enemies of internet freedom" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Real, Iran, America

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• Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

  Kim Dotcom

  Hate, Clinton, Assange

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

  Michael Anti

  Chinese, Window, Precise

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