The key to free expression is to not have one company control the flow of speech to more than 2 billion people, using algorithms that amplify disinformation in order to maximize profits.
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Quotes tagged ‘Freedom of Speech’
…as Americans we all have different point of views. And it's important to represent them all equally.
I mean we've seen on so many different levels that the cowards of Broward failed, the FBI failed, Sheriff Scott Israel failed.
I want us to get away from this culture where we demand an apology every time someone misspeaks.
It’s unfortunate that people are like that, they want to point a finger at something you know. Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that you know. It’s a touchy thing you know and that’s real…
Can we tolerate this kind of freedom of speech which flagrantly contravenes the principles of our constitution?
When journalists themselves wage campaigns to suppress the writing of other journalists, and intend to destroy a magazine for not toeing their ideological line, you can see how free speech truly is on the line.
When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social b…
Gutting net neutrality will have a devastating effect on free speech online. Without it, gateway corporations like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T will have too much power to mess with the free flow of information.
And what most people don’t understand is it’s not the freedom that you love that’s important. It’s the freedom that you hate the most. So you have to be able to defend most sides of the spectrum or otherwise you’re saying it’s fine for one person to have it, but not another.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.
Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.
The question that everyone should be asking about this censorship is simple: Who decides what to censor? Who decides what counts as hateful or extremist? And who benefits when a specific video or article or report is censored?
At the same time, we believe that even odious hate speech, with which we vehemently disagree, garners the protection of the 1st Amendment when expressed non-violently. We make decisions on whom we'll represent and in what context on a case-by-case basis. The horrible events in Charlottesville last w…
Though his ability to speak is protected by the 1st Amendment, I don't believe in protecting principle for the sake of principle in all cases. His actions have consequences for people that I care about and for me.
Learn the difference between honesty and being a dick.
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.
‘Certainly, posting that kind of thing on social media is a bad thought,’ professor Larry Dubin of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law told the Detroit News. ‘But having a bad thought isn’t necessarily a crime.’