Zitat des Tages über Ersticken / Stifle:
The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.
Written reports stifle creativity.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it.
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.