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13 quotes by Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler speaking at UC Berkeley School of law in 2006 Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves... →

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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and... →

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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... →

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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital... →

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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... →

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Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical.... →

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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only... →

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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.

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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and... →

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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut... →

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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... →

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