Cyber Sovereignty Quotes

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.

Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.