Jay Samit Quotes

Washington faces a simple choice: allow the Internet to remain as an engine of innovation, a platform for speech in even the harshest tyrannies, and a unified connection for people across the globe—or cede control of the Internet to service providers motivated by their parochial interests.

It is absolutely clear to me that we have to keep the internet open

I think we should not control the Internet.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

I support a free and open Internet.

The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet.

Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.