Government Quote by Milton Friedman

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

— Milton Friedman

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for…

— Milton Friedman

Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves…

— Vint Cerf

What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could…

— Daniel Lyons

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

— Heather Brooke

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

We see this in legislations such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, just to name a few. All of these legislations have…

— Peter Sunde

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have…

— Steve Crocker

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

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a…

— Eli Pariser

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic…

— John Perry Barlow

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will…

— Tyler Cowen