Jerry Berman Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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