Everywhere Quote by Rupert Murdoch

Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial…

— Rupert Murdoch

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

— Henry A. Wallace

“The Internet has long been heralded as an unprecedented instrument of democratization and liberalization, even emancipation. But in the eyes of the US government,…

— Glenn Greenwald

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.

— Evgeny Morozov

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests…

— John F. Kennedy

I'll say, as a general matter, look, if you look back at history - right? - the moments when incumbent platforms feel most threatened…

— Lina Khan

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is…

— Julian Assange

“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

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

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever…

— Ma Boyong

But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications…

— Barack Obama