We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the political will be successful, for exactly the reasons you underlined. The issue is too abstract for average people, who have too many things going on in their lives.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.