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

- Yochai Benkler

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.

- Yochai Benkler

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…

- Yochai Benkler

Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.

- Yochai Benkler

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

- Yochai Benkler

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, gi…

- Yochai Benkler

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, …

- Yochai Benkler

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.

- Yochai Benkler