30 Quotes by Kurt Opsahl

What you want to do is to teach students to use liberty responsibly, not take it away because you don't trust what they'll do with it. One thing you can do to guarantee that everyone in the school will want to see a site is to suspend someone over it.

We believe AT&T violated the law by providing the communications of its clients to the government without warrants, which is prohibited by federal law.

We can't say that the software is now secure. We're going to continue to raise these issues with Sony.

While they're willing to seek subpoenas for people without associations with Apple, they failed to review laptops or e-mails.

Creativity and innovation will end up moving offshore where programmers outside the U.S. can develop technologies that are not required to address the onerous CALEA requirements. The U.S. companies will face competition from foreign providers who will enjoy an advantage.

There's something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder.

The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about.

Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective digital rights management technologies. We hope that other record labels will learn from Sony's hard experience and focus more on the carrot of quality music and less on the stick of copy protection.

The California courts have a long history of supporting and protecting freedom of the press. We are looking forward to the opportunity to ask the Court of Appeal to correct a ruling that endangers all journalists.