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The Internet is great because it belongs to all of us equally, providing a level playing field. The web as we know it today is founded on the principle of ‘Net Neutrality’ — the idea that data, no matter who it is coming from or who is receiving it, should be given the same priority. Policymakers in the US are currently considering whether or not to adopt rules that protect Net Neutrality.
Come to this exciting event to learn a little bit about your digital rights and what Net Neutrality means for you.
We will have speakers who can talk to us about these issues and how they might impact everyone.
Bring your devices to learn about your privacy options and settings in a hands-on workshop with volunteers from Sudo Room and join us for a short maker party where we will craft buttons, posters or zines inspired by this conversation. We will tweet and post your creations #InternetFreedom or #OpenInternet
Speakers
MALKIA CYRIL grew up believing that “everyone deserves a public voice.” Inspired by her mother’s work editing the Black Panther’s newspaper in Brooklyn, Cyril recognized the power of media and culture at an early age. Today, Cyril is founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), a national network of 175 organizations working to expand media access and rights for marginalized communities. For more than a decade MAG-Net members have been winning fights for open Internet protections, digital inclusion, wireless and phone equity, community radio and public media at the local and national levels. A prolific writer, Cyril’s articles — on issues from Net Neutrality to prisoners’ communication rights to corporate accountability — have appeared in The New York Times, Politico, Huffington Post, Democracy Now, Essence Magazine and dozens more. In 2012, Cyril received the prestigious Donald H. McGannon Award for her work to advance the roles of women and persons of color in the media reform movement.
http://mediajustice.org/ | http://mag-net.org/
JEREMY GILLULA is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he focuses on privacy and civil liberties issues arising from new and existing technologies, including the Internet, machine learning algorithms, and autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. Prior to joining EFF, Dr. Gillula was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, where he developed novel methods for guaranteeing the safe operation of machine learning algorithms. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Stanford University Computer Science department, and his bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology Computer Science department.