36 Quotes by Sarah Jeong

Mechanisms that prevent Keurig machines from using off-label coffee pods are annoying but relatively harmless.

Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.

The belief that the law will never 'catch up' to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.

Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.

Are whisper networks good? That question itself is a little flat. Whisper networks arise in a vacuum of justice. They alleviate an untenable condition; they do not actually address it.

When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.