Jonathan Zittrain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Online
The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Powerful #Business #Quality
If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Online
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Data #Betray
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Phones #Law #Car
Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Iphone #Outsiders #Made
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Government #Details #Demand
The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Flames #May #Internet
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Book #Library #Digital
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Names #People #House
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Believe #Views #Water
Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
-- Jonathan Zittrain

#Capacity #Broads #Produce

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