The Internet treats censorship just like any other glitch: it routes around it.
John Gilmore of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public
debt as the greatest of dangers. . . we must make our choice between
economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
caring for them, they will be happy."
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change things I can change, amd the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people
I had to kill because they pissed me off.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it
Voltaire
There is no energy crisis, food crisis, or environmental crisis. There is a crisis of ignorance.
Buckminster Fuller
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin, _Historical_Review_of_Pennsylvania_, 1759.
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
- Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill, 1832
Power is not having to respond.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
libertarian:
one who advocates freedom from aggression, coercion, fraud and tyranny; and who offers the same in return.
Information wants to be free
Steward Brand