John Palfrey Quotations

There's a cat-and-mouse game going on between states that seek to control the information environment and citizens who seek to speak freely online. Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.

Other companies that follow similar practices beware: This is just the beginning of what we hope to identify and publicize.

The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.

For too long, unscrupulous companies have made millions of dollars infecting our computers with malicious software. This is so dangerous because there are intruders in your house, but you don't know that they are in there or how they got there.

For too long, these companies have been able to hide in the shadows of the Internet. What we're after is a more accountable Internet.

Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.

Massachusetts is the canary in the mine on this issue. If Massachusetts gets this right, others will follow.

We chose four quite common applications to highlight, and we have found that in each instance the applications do things to violate the guidelines.

We do have companies in mind but we are not going to name names off the bat.

There's a fine line between legitimate advertising practices and unwanted advertising practices, and finding where that line falls is a difficult one.