Clash Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

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

I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal…

— Misha Glenny

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

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 internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal…

— Misha Glenny

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

— Jamais Cascio

While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Milton Friedman

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

The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.

— John Gage

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

— Heather Brooke

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