Yep, exactly 10 years since Internet Blackout Day! REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3nDStJ0 [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10>On *Tuesday 18 January 2022* at *11:00-12:30 EST* (16:30-17:30 UTC) the *Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law <https://georgetowntech.org/>* hosts a webinar '*Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout <https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6>*'. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new *report from Freedom House <https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-tech>* observes both the promise and peril of internet regulation. The global drive to control big tech thus carries a seeming contradiction: it can be an expression of democracy but can also support authoritarianism. On the tenth anniversary of the *blackout <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA>* of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today. *OPENING CONVERSATION* *Jimmy Wales*, founder, Wikipedia *PANEL* *Rebecca MacKinnon*, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation *Allie Funk*, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House *Vivek Krishnamurthy*, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa *Konstantinos Komaitis*, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation *HOST / MODERATOR* *Anupam Chander*, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the *Internet Society Washington DC Chapter <https://isoc-dc.org/>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6 <https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6>* *REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15031>)* *TWITTER #FreedomOnTheNet <http://bit.ly/freedomonthenet> @GtownTechLaw @jimmy_wales @AnupamChander @alfunk @kkomaitis @vivekdotca @rmack @freedomonthenet #netfreedom #netgov * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/* <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10 <https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15031/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -