Jerry Berman Quotations

There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.

but there is potential serious collateral damage to our Constitution and civil liberties in the attorney general's bill.

It is not television or radio or telephone, but a brand new, robust form of publishing that deserves the same First Amendment protections as print.

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

We think this statute will be struck down. There are less restrictive means to protect children such as blocking and filtering tools which are the only solutions with a global Internet.

There is opportunity for moderation and for deadlock. Deadlock is a disaster because the states are ready to roll, and then companies will have to deal with a crazy patchwork of privacy laws.

These resources have always been available, (and) they're getting more and more diverse. But they've never been made available at one site ... and they've never been made available at every entrance point to the Internet.

I want a face-to-face debate, ... Let them go at it.

Privacy is high on the list of bipartisan bills with support in both houses. There is a chance to do something that is both bipartisan and balanced.

a landmark moment in the cause of establishing and protecting individual privacy rights online.

This creates some momentum for really addressing privacy legislation as early as next year.

They try to get a seat at a lot of tables to have a dialogue, and they do spend money.

There's broad consensus that ICANN hasn't worked. We need to ask: Do we need this beast?

The Internet is going to be a legislative issue in every Congress from now on,

If you want the Internet to come into your country, you're going to have to live with some of its openness, ... You can't bureaucratize it.

Can they try to buy you? Maybe they'd love to. But we try to resist that, in terms of a diversity of funding, and we make it quite clear.

The goal is to educate policy makers about the Internet as a technology, ... We need to explain to policy makers what these issues are.

The commercial, free speech, educational potential of the Internet will be stifled, but we still won't have solved the problem of protecting children from pornography.