When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."