Jerry Berman Quotes (14 Quotes)

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

We think this statute will be struck down. There are less restrictive means to protect children such as blocking and filtering tools which are the only solutions with a global Internet.

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.

The goal is to educate policy makers about the Internet as a technology, ... We need to explain to policy makers what these issues are.

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.

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

There is opportunity for moderation and for deadlock. Deadlock is a disaster because the states are ready to roll, and then companies will have to deal with a crazy patchwork of privacy laws.

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.

If these products are going to pass a consumer trust test, businesses need to be able to say there are protections.

There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.

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

These resources have always been available, (and) they're getting more and more diverse. But they've never been made available at one site ... and they've never been made available at every entrance point to the Internet.

I want a face-to-face debate, ... Let them go at it.

but there is potential serious collateral damage to our Constitution and civil liberties in the attorney general's bill.