Jonathan Zittrain quotes
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“When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.”
-- Jonathan ZittrainSource : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2012
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“The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.”
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“If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.”
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“If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.”
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“Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.”
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“Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.”
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“Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.”
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“The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.”
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“Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.”
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“There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.”
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“Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.”
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“Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.”
-- Jonathan ZittrainSource : Jonathan Zittrain (2008). “The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It”, p.70, Yale University Press
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