Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free. ”

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created. ”

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world. ”

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students. ”

It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient. ”

If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public. ”

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet. ”

If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime. ”

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it. ”

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country. ”