Approach Quote by Heather Brooke

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

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

— Ajit Pai

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

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

— Milton Friedman

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine…

— Michael Nesmith

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 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

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner…

— Mary Bono

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

— Ai Weiwei

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is one of…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret…

— Edward Snowden

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

— Noam Chomsky