Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy… - Noam Cohen

An engineering degree is also no longer a requisite to using technology, as seemingly anyone today can install a printer or upload a video. Similarly, another signifier of nerd status — knowing obscure facts about favorite subjects — has also lost its currency.

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.

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.