“People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.” PeopleShouldHandsAbleHurtReadyInternetCitizensConversationRounds Author:Brian Williams
“Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.” MindGovernmentTodayNamesSpeakShareInternetCitizensLet MePrisonChineseAddressesChinese Government Author:Tom Lantos
“We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.” IfsThinkingResponsibilityInternetCitizensDigitalUsersPassiveTaking Responsibility Author:Rebecca MacKinnon
“The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet – they are answers to basic questions about the relationship each citizen has to the government and about the extent to which we trust one another with the full range of fundamental rights granted by the Constitution.” GovernmentDecisionAnswersRightsInternetCitizensConstitutionFundamentalsGrantedRangeDecisions We MakeFundamental Rights Book:Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age Source: Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
“With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.” PeopleDoeStatesUnitedUnited StatesInternetCitizensEmailNsa Author:Barack Obama
“One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.” PeopleWorldFirstsGovernmentYoungUsedLeftDemocracyPolicyInternetCitizensOfficeFirst TimeOrganizationDown AndFoundationChinaI RealizedChineseDictatorshipEpidemicsSars Author:William J. Clinton
“Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.” NeedsMeanCultureNationsResponsibilityDemocracyGreaterInternetCitizensCriticalCollectivesFree SpeechCuspCollective Responsibility Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.” BelieveWellsI BelieveTechnologyPolicyInternetCitizensI Believe InFree Speech Author:Esther Dyson
“John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.” WayHas BeensInternetCitizensOfficeConcernCommunicate Author:John Byrne
“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.” LyingDiesPowerfulClassDemocracyInformationTelevisionSourceReaderInternetCitizensNewsBlindLeavingEntertainmentAccessTraditionalDumbJournalistCorporationsRetreatDeafRuthlessIdeologicalGhettoTrustworthyFusion Author:Chris Hedges