As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

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

The [George W.] Bush administration marked a very serious and profoundly negative turning point - not just for the nation, but for the international order, because we started to govern on the idea of "might makes right." And that's a very old, toxic and infectious idea.

When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.