EFF30 Fireside Chat: Free the Internet, with Gigi Sohn
Channel: EFForg
Date: 2021-06-03

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before." — John Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"

Join us for a candid live discussion with net neutrality pioneer Gigi Sohn, EFF Senior Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon, and EFF Associate Director of Policy and Activism Katharine Trendacosta as they discuss corporatization, activism, and the fate of the internet.

EFF30 Fireside Chat: Free the Internet
Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 5 pm Pacific Time
Streaming Discussion with Q&A

The future sure isn’t what it used to be. This year marked the 25th anniversary of Barlow’s audacious essay denouncing centralized authority on the blossoming internet. But modern tech strayed far from the utopia of individual freedom that 90s netizens envisioned. U.S. digital infrastructure lags behind much of the world, rural and other marginalized people are left behind, and a tiny handful of companies seem to control the internet. It sounds a lot like that old world of flesh and steel. So what went wrong and is it too late to fix it?

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