John Doolittle Quotes

The Internet allows me to be more free.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.

Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

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

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

We're muddying the waters when we are having a discussion about what's going on on YouTube and Twitter and whether that's a matter of free speech. These are private platforms and they're allowed to decide what should and should not be on its platforms. It's not an issue of free speech.

The net is a very precious thing. I hate it when people discuss measures to limit it.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google's role in acceding to the Chinese government's demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech - free search and links - from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

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

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

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.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.