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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.

Beeban Kidron

I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.

Tags: great, school, internet

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

Beeban Kidron

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

Tags: love, think, email

About Author
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, (born 2 May 1961), is an advocate for children's rights in the digital world. She has played a determinative role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.
Baroness Kidron sits as a crossbench peer in the UK's House of Lords. She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, a commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development and founder and chair of 5Rights Foundation.
Before being appointed to the Lords she was an award-winning film director and founder of the charity Filmclub (now Into Film).

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

Beeban Kidron

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

Tags: i am, internet, greatest

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Tags: king, story, which

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

Beeban Kidron

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

Tags: children, details, situation