Americans ought to be concerned about censorship and the use of information by our government. Similarly, we are citizens of the world, and collectively we ought to advocate an approach to information worldwide that is as open and transparent as possible.

The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.

If the Pentagon has been collecting information improperly on Americans, it should provide a full accounting of what kind of information it collected, on whom and why, subject only perhaps to protecting the privacy of individuals.

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,

We're not in the business of censorship. It is not up to a government official to determine whose opinion is right and whose is wrong.