- Culture
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Internet Quotes
A tool that connects and complicates in equal measure.
One line questions whether encryption is really the internet's biggest problem, given how many strangers it connects who aren't actually friends. For related tech reflections, see our Computer quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long Time
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.
- Empower
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
- Communication
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.
- Freedom
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
- Freedom
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.
- Everyone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.
- Dedicate
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020