Defeat Quote by Eric S. Raymond

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

— Jamais Cascio

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and…

— Noam Chomsky

“Controlling the internet is a powerful tool for increasingly confident autocracies.”

— Roger Spitz

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

— Jamais Cascio

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of…

— Vint Cerf

There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have a real…

— Misha Glenny

The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity…

— Dan Pena

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is…

— Julian Assange

I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal…

— Misha Glenny

“The Internet, as we now know it, carries a trove of inherent dangers. Those dangers are just beginning to reveal themselves, and their scale…

— Ted Koppel

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.

— Evgeny Morozov

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics…

— Rebecca MacKinnon