History Quote by Glenn Greenwald

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

“The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles.…

— Julian Assange

“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

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But…

— Trevor Paglen

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister.…

— Tom Burr

I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that…

— Ban Ki-moon

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

The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and…

— Alexis Ohanian

“In the fight for freedom, the Internet is everything, and we should fight to protect it from government encroachment and censorship.”

— Matt Kibbe

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information…

— Darrell Issa

As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals…

— William Barr

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

— Joan Wallach Scott