<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Yep, exactly 10 years since Internet Blackout Day!<br><br>REAL TIME TEXT <a href="https://bit.ly/3nDStJ0">https://bit.ly/3nDStJ0</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_default"></div><br><u></u><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:675.852px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="width:675.852px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:8px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody></tbody></table><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a href="http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><img border="0" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SOPA-PIPA10-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>On <strong>Tuesday 18 January 2022</strong> at <strong>11:00-12:30 EST</strong> (16:30-17:30 UTC) the <strong><a href="https://georgetowntech.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law</a></strong> hosts a webinar '<strong><a href="https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout</a></strong>'. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new <strong><a href="https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-tech" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">report from Freedom House</a></strong> 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 <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">blackout</a></strong> 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.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>OPENING CONVERSATION</strong><br><strong>Jimmy Wales</strong>, founder, Wikipedia</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>PANEL</strong><br><strong>Rebecca MacKinnon</strong>, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation<br><strong>Allie Funk</strong>, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House<br><strong>Vivek Krishnamurthy</strong>, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa<br><strong>Konstantinos Komaitis</strong>, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>HOST / MODERATOR</strong><br><strong>Anupam Chander</strong>, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the <strong><a href="https://isoc-dc.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet Society Washington DC Chapter</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1e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