The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.