What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.