When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.