Just some odds and ends I have come across this week, united by a common theme.

Vladimir Putin, upon hearing calls for officials to examine complaints on the Internet about vote rigging in the recent regional elections: “On the Internet 50 percent is porn material. Why should we refer to the Internet?“

Figure skater Oksana Domnina reacting to the news that her routine with Maxim Shabalin imitating Australian aborigines had caused offense and protests:  “We didn’t know anything about it. (…) We researched a lot of information on the internet. It’s just from many thousands of years ago and it wasn’t our goal [to be authentic].“

Sec. of Stat Hillary Clinton:  “Just as steel can be used to build hospitals or machine guns, or nuclear power can either energize a city or destroy it, modern information networks and the technologies they support can be harnessed for good or for ill.“