Agenda 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

“The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles.…

— Julian Assange

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will…

— Eric Schmidt

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

— Terence McKenna

The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize…

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the [Communications Decency Act], interrupt that conversation.

— Stewart Dalzell

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

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they…

— Kofi Annan