Noam Cohen Quotes
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Noam Cohen is a journalist and columnist for The New York Times. He has covered subjects including business and technology.
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Also known as: Cohen, Noam
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Governments are trying to wrestle, how do you censor without being so heavy-handed that you make people really, you know, can't live their lives.
Never before has the boundary between geek culture and mainstream culture been so porous.
Through Google, you can find the horrible things people say about you, and the nice things they say about you. And so I do that regularly to sort of check on it.
America's got a much stronger tradition of free speech and freedom of the press. In Europe, it's much more nuanced and they put a lot of meaning on the rights of your reputation.
From gadgets to social networks to video games, the decision not to embrace the newest technology is a choice to be out of the mainstream.
Playing the government off newspapers, and newspapers against each other, still does not compare with the power of the World Wide Web.
Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights.
Before Wikileaks, or even the Internet, there were just plain leaks.
Internet companies and nonprofits like Wikipedia have been forced to choose between cooperating with the Chinese government and losing access to the growing online audience there.