Jerry Yang Quotes

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

The Internet allows me to be more free.

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 interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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

I have every right to tweet.

The First Amendment protects the Internet.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

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

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

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 question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

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.

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.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

In cyberspace, once privacy is breached, it may be breached worldwide. Free speech is not restricted to a street-corner audience, a locker room, or a limited-circulation publication, but travels the world.

The Internet in China is fully open and the Chinese Government manages the Internet according to the law. As for what you can and cannot watch, watch what you can watch, and don’t watch what you cannot watch.

I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.

Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

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

Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.

The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.