"TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that……" — Jonathan Zittrain
"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 use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast."
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34 Quotes by Jonathan Zittrain
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The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.
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When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
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If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
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Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
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Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for…
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There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind…
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Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
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I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in…
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When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any…
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The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect…
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Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored,…
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The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a…
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More Airwaves Quotes
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
— Dave Barry
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was…
— Jimmy Webb
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It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all…
— James Marsters
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If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would…
— Tony Campolo
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Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound…
— Julius Lester
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A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink…
— Gore Vidal
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Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the…
— John Ringo
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
— Joe Elliott
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I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock…
— John Lahr
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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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