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Is it necessary? Is it really so dangerous to allow individuals an ability to associate and communicate freely? Certainly there exists a criminal minority who take advantage of the freedom of the Internet, but no one is arguing that crimes shouldn't be prosecuted. This is about allowing the vast majority of people to communicate without state intervention. Despite all the dire warnings, the prophesies of doom and destruction that were foretold by the Pentagon, the US State Department, Hosni Mubarak, even English High Court Judge Eady, I look at the fallout from all that was published in 2010, all the breaches to establishment power that occurred through a networked citizenry- and the good clearly outweighs the bad. From the uprising in Iceland to the ousting of dictators in the Middle East, free speech has fundamentally changed the world for the good.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Heather Brooke", "slug": "heather-brooke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke" }, "book": { "title": "The Revolution will be Digitised", "slug": "the-revolution-will-be-digitised", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 236, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "freedom of speech", "slug": "freedom-of-speech", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom-of-speech" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke#The_Revolution_Will_Be_Digitised:_Dispatches_From_the_Information_War,_1st_Edition", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:05" }, { "id": "62da5bef-60b4-4bd5-8e9a-d1288983faad", "slug": "free-speech-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/free-speech-is-not", "text": "Free speech is not the great danger for humanity. Concentration of power is. We learn this lesson over and over again, and yet seem compelled eternally to repeat it. Communism, colonialism, monarchy, state socialism, tyranny- all become enemies of the people because they offer their citizens not too many opportunities to communicate or associate, but too few. Power is the dynamic force that fuels politics and it is this, not speech, which needs to be constantly monitored, controlled and checked. We view crimes against humanity as aberrations, individuals gone wild, when we should be seeing them through the prism of power. 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When they do that, this nation is not a right place to live. They sacrifice generations of people’s opportunities. This is a crime.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ai Weiwei", "slug": "ai-weiwei", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei" }, "book": { "title": "Ai Weiwei", "slug": "ai-weiwei", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "freedom of speech", "slug": "freedom-of-speech", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom-of-speech" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Ai_Weiwei:_The_Dissident,_2011", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:06" }, { "id": "a9507c65-734b-496d-a56a-f719fa384549", "slug": "during-my-detention", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei/during-my-detention", "text": "During my detention, they kept asking me: Ai Weiwei, what is the reason you have become like this today? My answer is: First, I refuse to forget. My parents, my family, their whole generation and my generation all paid a great deal in the struggle for freedom of speech. Many people died just because of one sentence or even one word. Somebody has to take responsibility for that.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ai Weiwei", "slug": "ai-weiwei", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei" }, "book": { "title": "Ai Weiwei", "slug": "ai-weiwei", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "freedom of speech", "slug": "freedom-of-speech", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom-of-speech" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Ai_Weiwei:_%E2%80%98Shame_on_Me.%E2%80%99,_2011", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:06" }, { "id": "08b490d1-01ef-41cf-a0ed-bed6d681ae1c", "slug": "my-voice-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei/my-voice-is-not", "text": "My voice is not for me. Every time I make a sentence I think how many people for how many generations had a voice that no one could hear. 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Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Jefferson", "slug": "thomas-jefferson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson" }, "book": { "title": "Notes on the State of Virginia", "slug": "notes-on-the-state-of-virginia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 171, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "tolerance", "slug": "tolerance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance" }, { "name": "freedom of speech", "slug": "freedom-of-speech", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom-of-speech" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#Query_XVII", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:39" }, { "id": "61b8c8d0-6751-491c-8e93-d94708282813", "slug": "the-error-seems", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia/the-error-seems", "text": "The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a truer man. It may fix him obstinately in his errors, but will not cure them. Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion, by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free enquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free enquiry been indulged, at the aera of the reformation, the corruptions of Christianity could not have been purged away. If it be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged. Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. 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Conscience and the press ought to be unrestrained, not because men have a right to deviate from the exact line that duty prescribes, but because society, the aggregate of individuals, has no right to assume the prerogative of an infallible judge, and to undertake authoritatively to prescribe to its members in matters of pure speculation.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Godwin", "slug": "william-godwin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin" }, "book": { "title": "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice", "slug": "enquiry-concerning-political-justice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "conscience", "slug": "conscience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience" }, { "name": "freedom of speech", "slug": "freedom-of-speech", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom-of-speech" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Godwin#Enquiry_Concerning_Political_Justice_(1793)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09" }, { "id": "0b41b7c2-3e13-4df9-b319-08888849d824", "slug": "nobody-has-to-read", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-good-man-jesus-and-the-scoundrel-christ/nobody-has-to-read", "text": "Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if they open it and read it, they don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. 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