a landmark moment in the cause of establishing and protecting individual privacy rights online. |
but there is potential serious collateral damage to our Constitution and civil liberties in the attorney general's bill. |
Can they try to buy you? Maybe they'd love to. But we try to resist that, in terms of a diversity of funding, and we make it quite clear. |
I want a face-to-face debate, ... Let them go at it. |
If these products are going to pass a consumer trust test, [businesses] need to be able to say there are protections. |
If you want the Internet to come into your country, you're going to have to live with some of its openness, ... You can't bureaucratize it. |
If you want the Internet to come into your country, you're going to have to live with some of its openness. You can't bureaucratize it. |
It is not television or radio or telephone, but a brand new, robust form of publishing that deserves the same First Amendment protections as print. |
medium unlike any that has come before. |
Privacy is high on the list of bipartisan bills with support in both houses. There is a chance to do something that is both bipartisan and balanced. |
The commercial, free speech, educational potential of the Internet will be stifled, but we still won't have solved the problem of protecting children from pornography. |
The goal is to educate policy makers about the Internet as a technology, ... We need to explain to policy makers what these issues are. |
The Internet is going to be a legislative issue in every Congress from now on, |
There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes. |
There is opportunity for moderation and for deadlock. Deadlock is a disaster because the states are ready to roll, and then companies will have to deal with a crazy patchwork of privacy laws. |