Web Freedom Quotes

It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand the nice experience, but there's something about it that doesn't flow well.' Opening an app, closing it, moving to something else. There's something about the open web that's very free flowing.

Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.