Free Speech Quotes - Page 18

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

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Cyberspace, World

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• In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  Cnn, Phones, Two

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• Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

  Newt Gingrich

  Age, Needs, Credit

  "Your Daily Newt: A $40 Billion Entitlement for Laptops" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2011.

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• It is almost impossible for anyone outside this damn beltway to really understand how the Congress works. If you aren't here, walking the halls of Congress, sitting at bars and attending parties where you get to knock back some brews with Hill staffers, you don't have a handle on the almost numbing amount of bullshit that goes on.

  Brock N. Meeks

  Party, Bullshit, Bars

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• If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming... the government stands ready to step in.

  Janet Reno

  Sex, Government, America

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• If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Talking, Years, Different

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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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• It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

  John C. Malone

  Communication, Needs, 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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• 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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• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  Cyber Attacks, America, People

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

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• By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

  Max Nordau

  Flying, Generations, Machines

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• Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cutting, Feet, Censorship

  Letter to N. G. Dufief, 19 Apr. 1814

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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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• Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

  Winston Churchill

  Laughter, Children, Fun

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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