28. July 2021

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To commemorate the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 30th anniversary, we present EFF30 Fireside Chats. This limited series of livestreamed conversations looks back at some of the biggest issues in internet history and their effects on the modern web.

To celebrate 30 years of defending online freedom, EFF held a candid live discussion with net neutrality pioneer and EFF board member Gigi Sohn, who served as Counselor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and co-founder of leading advocacy organization Public Knowledge. Joining the chat were Senior Legislative Counsel at EFF Ernesto Falcon and Associate Director of Policy and Activism Katharine Trendacosta. You can watch the full conversation here.

In my perfect world, everyone’s connected to a future proof, fast and affordable—and open—internet.

On July 28, we’ll be holding our final EFF30 Fireside Chat. For this Founder’s Edition, we’re bringing together some of our founders and early board members. EFF’s Executive Director, Cindy Cohn will be joined with Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, and John Gilmore to everything from EFF’s origin story and its role in digital rights to where EFF is today.

EFF30 Fireside Chat: Founders Edition
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 5 pm Pacific Time
Streaming Discussion with Q&A

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The conversation began with a comparison between the policy battles of the 1990s, the 2000’s, and today: “What was happening was that the copyright industry–Hollywood, the recording industry, the book publishers–, saw this technology that gave people power to control their own experience and what they wanted to see, and what they wanted to listen to, and it flipped them out…we really need[ed] an organization in Washington that’s dedicated to a free and open internet, that’s free of copyright gatekeepers, and free of ISP gatekeepers.” This was the founding of Public Knowle

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