“In the digital world, delete does not always delete.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2021/12/25/why-big-brands-are-spending-millions-on-nfts/
“In the digital world, delete does not always delete.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
Gilberto Gil (1942) Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician
[Dibbell, Julian, 2004, November, We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin, Wired, 12, 11, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html, 2008-03-16]
Heather Brooke (1970) American journalist
Press Gazette http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/8235 - "Harold Evans, Guido Fawkes, Heather Brookes and Bild on journalism and the public interest", 27 September 2011. <br class="br">Attributed, In the Media
Lawrence Lessig book Free Culture
Free Culture (2004)
Context: Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
In addition to these important harms, there is one more that was important to our forebears, but seems forgotten today. Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
The war that is being waged today is a war of prohibition. As with every war of prohibition, it is targeted against the behavior of a very large number of citizens. According to The New York Times, 43 million Americans downloaded music in May 2002. According to the RIAA, the behavior of those 43 million Americans is a felony. We thus have a set of rules that transform 20 percent of America into criminals.
Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA
Responding to a question on breaking encryption to make a back-up copy of a DVD.
Interview in Harvard Political Review (2002)
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) First Prime Minister of Singapore
MM Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore workers, History of Singapore, 2005
2000s
Charles A. Kupchan (1958) American university teacher
Source: The End of the American Era (2002), Chapter eight: The Rebirth of History
Alan Rusbridger (1953) British newspaper editor
Rusbridger (2011). As cited in: Benedetta Brevini, Arne Hintz, Patrick McCurdy (2013) Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society. p. 1994.
2010s