I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.