Social Media Control Quotes

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains the empowering potential of social networks.

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

In my government, I do Twitter on my own. I have no sponsorship, nothing.

I do feel there is a very rabid young base for 'Black Mirror' that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media.

I've never tweeted. 'Funny or Die' started my Twitter account for me, and so I don't even have the password or anything like that. They started it, then they handed it off to other comics.

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

People are following me because they want to see pictures of me. So why is Instagram editing them?

I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.

I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister controls my Instagram, and my big brother controls my Twitter. I also don't really Google myself or anything like that.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

My social media is very strict to my character and I've disabled comments on a lot of things because why would the Aleister Black character care about comments?

China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.

If you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting. Go seek therapy.