Quotes about cyberspace (15 Quotes)





    Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace. They know there's something called the Internet out there. But most of 'em don't know how to use it and most of 'em aren't very familiar with it.




    I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.



    Today, our hearts and minds are naturally focused on yesterday's tragedy, but it is important that the Senate continue with America's business, particularly as it affects America's security, ... Our enemies will increasingly strike this mighty nation at places where they believe we are not only dependent but unguarded. That is surely true of cyberspace infrastructure today.

    Online thieves who steal merchandise that companies work hard to produce and protect might think that cyberspace cloaks them in anonymity and makes them invulnerable to prosecution but we have the ability to infiltrate their secret networks and hold them accountable for their criminal conduct.


    The question last Christmas was, if you put up a Web site will people come And sure enough they came. ... Now we're in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.

    I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

    True it is that many find some of the speech on the Internet to be offensive, and amid the din of cyberspace many hear discordant voices that they regard as indecent. The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs experts put it with such resonance at the hearing 'What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is that chaos.' Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. For these reasons, I without hesitation hold that the Communications Decency Act is unconstitutional on its face.



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