#neutrality

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#am #big #broadcast #cable #cause

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ↗

— Max Eastman

#demand #favor #neutral #neutrality #people

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet. ↗

— James Hilton

#about #away #change #everything #fundamentally

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#lasting #neutrality #principle #weakness

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. ↗

— Dave Winer

#concept #hypocrisy #industry #net #neutrality

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#fight #neutrality #part #switzerland #terrorism

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. ↗

— Edward Grey

#asks #away #bargain #belgium #chancellor

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#courage #dissent #moral-courage #neutrality #protest

Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#objectivity #equality

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #morality #neutrality #hell