Yochai Benkler
Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.Collection: Knowledge
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.Collection: Anger
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.Collection: Legal
Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.Collection: Dinner With Friends
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.Collection: Government
Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.Collection: Israel
Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.Collection: Imperfection
On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.Collection: New York
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.Collection: Movement
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.Collection: Practice