18 Quotes by Jerry Berman

a landmark moment in the cause of establishing and protecting individual privacy rights online.

This creates some momentum for really addressing privacy legislation as early as next year.

They try to get a seat at a lot of tables to have a dialogue, and they do spend money.

There's broad consensus that ICANN hasn't worked. We need to ask: Do we need this beast?

The Internet is going to be a legislative issue in every Congress from now on,

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.

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.

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 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.