WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
'Free' is the museum show of our times, presaging the whole Wikileaks dustup, and it shows shifting power dynamics and a glimpse of the human in a world of flowing data.
My generation, the so-called post-'90s generation that came of age after the territory was returned to China, would have the most to lose if Hong Kong were to become like just another mainland Chinese city, where information is not freely shared and the rule of law is ignored.
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
The only thing worse than watching an Alex Jones video is the government trying to tell Google not to do it - to prevent people form watching the Alex Jones video. We can't even do it if we tried.
Why does the White House sometimes seem so determined to close the door on the people's right to know what their government is doing?
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.
Democracies can’t accomplish much of anything without the free flow of information – including waging the war on terrorism.
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers.
Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?
Our laws and institutions are excellent, but the population is not yet ready. They must develop their views and need to be provided with the right information. We now also have private broadcasters and many are very critical of me, hostile even, yet they operate freely.
If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.
The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.
The free flow of information is vital for economic development.
I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth.
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.
