#internet

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#amazing #amount #control #internet #monitor

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#combination #get #i #i love #internet

Nothing's faster than the Internet. ↗

— Anna Sui

#internet #nothing #than

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#ideas #internet #open-government #writing #change

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access. ↗

— Peter Nelson

#electronic #idiots #internet #introduced #problems

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anonymous #free-speech #identity #internet #trolling

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... ↗

— Clay Shirky

#change

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication. ↗

— Robert D. Putnam

#computers #internet #technology #communication

I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, polite manner. ↗

— Gavin Dunne

#snark #snarkiness #communication

Das Internet ist das erste Medium, das diese Grenze [zwischen Publikation und Kommunikation] aufhebt. ↗

— Thomas Knüwer

#internet #media #communication