I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.
