Convince Quote by Ramesh Srinivasan

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance…

— John W. Thompson

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

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase…

— Charlie Munger

We want to have markets that are self-policing through competition. The Internet community doesn't want the government coming in and regulating it.

— William Barr

“Contrary to what techno-determinists want us to believe, inequality is not the inevitable by-product of technology and globalization or even the lopsided distribution of…

— Jonathan Taplin

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.

— Robert Waterman McChesney

The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational…

— Alexis Ohanian

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

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

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

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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