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“Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.”

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon is a renowned blogger, born on September 16, 1969. She is known for her contributions to the fields of internet freedom and freedom of speech. more

“There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.”

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Author:Jonathan Zittrain

“While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.”

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Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.”

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Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.”

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Author:Gerald Nicosia

“We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.”

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Author:Glenn Miller

“Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.”

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Author:Marc Chandler

“We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.”

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Book:Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Source: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

“Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.”

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Author:André Brink

“To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.”

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Author:Jon Schmidt

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