Does the Internet Need Saving?

SavetheInternet.com Coalition, Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Daily Kos
Monday, Sept. 20
11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Rayburn House Office Building, 2261

Over the past 15 years, the Internet has driven economic innovation, job opportunity, free speech and democratic participation. This has not been by accident, but as a consequence of the Internet's open architecture, which treats all websites and traffic equally and allows for the free flow of communications online.

But is this fundamental openness now in danger? At a moment when more people are using broadband to do more inventive things, they may lose their ability to control their online experience. Policy debates are heating up in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission that will shape the future of the Internet for a generation. This briefing will explain how the Internet was designed to work, explore how policy decisions could change the Internet, and discuss how politics will shape the outcome.

Opening Speech:

Barbara van Schewick
Author of Internet Architecture and Innovation
Professor, Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School

Panel Discussion:

Chris Bowers
Daily Kos

Garlin Gilchrist II
Center for Community Change

Adam Green
Progressive Change Campaign Committee

Aparna Sridhar (moderator)
Free Press

RSVP to Jenn Ettinger; jettinger@freepress.net