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Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.

I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.