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The constant abuse of online activity must stop.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Online bullying has to stop.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

If the great thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone, the bad thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone.

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.