Jonathan Zittrain Quotes

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• The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.
• When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
• If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
• Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
• Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
• There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have…
• Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
• I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether…
• When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three…
• The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make…
• Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon…
• The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two…
• We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to…
• Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new…
• One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its…
• People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to…
• TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can…
• The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
• If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
• Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers -…

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