Government Quote by Ajit Pai

The government invented the Internet.

— Jon Meacham

The Internet, like most successful American innovations, have not thrived because of heavy-handed government regulation.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale…

— Virginia Postrel

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation -…

— Ajit Pai

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

— Heather Brooke

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

— Jon Postel

In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision…

— Ajit Pai

It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear…

— Eric Schmidt

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

— Noam Chomsky

President Clinton got it right in 1996 when he established a free-market-based approach to this new thing called the Internet, and the Internet economy…

— Ajit Pai

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

— Ai Weiwei

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might…

— Franklin Foer