I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society - ours - tended to believe that a large portion of our rights were inherent and couldn't be abrogated by governments, even if this seemed necessary.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?