“In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.” SaidTwoImportantLastsAbilityWeekInternetProtectThirdsPolicePhonesPartnersPreservesPrivacyFree SpeechChipsPollsPhone CallsCnn Author:Philip Elmer-DeWitt
“Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.” ThinkingTodaySecretInternetPoliceSecret Police Author:Robert Scheer
“It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.” WorldBelieveKindUsedHappenedStrangeLike YouInternetNewsPoliceUsed To BeFiftyNutsIsolated Author:Bruce Perens
“If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it. It is content related. Ultimately what they want to control and police is the content. They're liberals! They want to eliminate opposing points of view. They do it with political correctness, which is censorship. They do it in the Drive-By Media by simply ignoring all kinds of news that is not palatable or it conflicts with their worldview, they just ignore it and don't even cover it. It's inarguable.” PeopleThinkingKindPoliticalInternetConflictPolicePoint Of ViewAll KindsCensorshipWorldviewPolitical Correctness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.” HumansFactsEasyNumbersGrowingIndustryInternetTasksPoliceChinaLocalsPursueDataFirmAllowingProfitableSurveillancePresentingFormat Author:Evgeny Morozov
“So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.” AmericaFacesCompanyInternetPoliceChinaBitterBitternessSevereRestrictionBitter TruthEnlistedEnlisting Author:Tom Lantos
“What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.” NeedsInspirationAbleMotivationFirePlansInternetPerformancesPoliceIndependentDepartmentPlan BPolice DepartmentFire Department Author:Danny Hillis
“[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.” IfsWorldCountryFactsInspirationMovingMotivationGivenInternetComputerPoliceCriminalsAround The WorldPlanesOperationsOnlineCapabilityTicketsVirusesJurisdictionComputer Viruses Author:Mikko Hypponen
“The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.” ShouldDoneGovernmentLawRightsInternetConstitutionPoliceCourtInnocenceUsersFairnessBeing DoneUnreachableInternet Users Author:Paul Vixie
“Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.” KnowsShouldStepsInternetPoliceCongressAlternativesExperts Author:Ron Wyden
“Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.” SchoolWaterDevelopmentInternetSafeTaxesResearchPoliceSafetyCourtDrinkingUniversityParksPoolInfrastructurePublic SchoolTransportationVaccinesPublic HealthDrinking WaterHealth And SafetySafe Drinking WaterSafe Drinking Author:Holly Sklar