“In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.”— Mark Zuckerberg, recode.net
“I had to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge say ‘twenty-five years in prison’ before I realized that freedom of expression could never be taken for granted.”— Larry Flynt, esquire.com
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”— Chrissy Stockton, amazon.com
“There are Muslim women wearing hijab in our nation’s military. Whether it’s hijab or beards or turbans, to cling to these outdated ‘traditions’ merely out of a sense of not wanting to change anything is, I think, untenable in this day and age and in our increasingly diverse society.”— Ibrahim Hooper, washingtonpost.com
“Freedom of expression will always be more popular in principle than in practice. We want to be free to express ourselves, but are less enthusiastic when that freedom is exercised by others with whom we disagree. Nobody likes a critic.”— Nick Denton, gawker.com
“Unplanned, unanticipated encounters are central to democracy itself. Such encounters often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating. They are important partly to ensure against fragmentation and extremism, which are predictable outcomes of a…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com