Mike Godwin

Mike Godwin is a lawyer.

• "The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind." (1995 )
  • Source: unknown.

• "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 or 20 years from now she will come to me and say, 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" (1996 )
  • Source: Luncheon speech given at technology conference, "New Media Technology: True Innovations or Electric Fork?" on February 13th, 1996.

• "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
  • Source : Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies See also the Wikipedia entry for Godwin's Law: [1].