Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet!

http://www.ted.com In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a "Magna Carta" moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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[ScoreStudy]

Fuck you, TED, for your obnoxious insensitivity to the thousands of requests for a shorter intro, with lower volume! Fuck you!

[ab001atg]

yawning lady in front at12:34

[jeterie]

@ab001atg hahaha nice not boring at all. :0&

[MightyKingYoung]

If SOPA passes you'll have your revolution

[lamatheapple]

after first minutes all i can say is, if you dont like apple, dont use their products.

[sqbsbear]

interesting ideas, great points... gotta work on that delivery though.

[ABESAW]

wonderful

[MobRulesNow]

She's correct. The fight has only just begun.

[zaheerahmedkhokhar]

Whenever I play TED'S video that does not work after two minutes.

Can anybody tell me why or how should I play it

[MrThastik]

This lady needs to watch Zeitgeist : Moving Forward! She would support the movement!

[KhadaKuraki]

Wonderful talk.

[squidb8]

@Dblo4445 : Historical evidence contradicts. Unless some entity steps up and take responsibility for common resource, no one will. Look at over fishing, and whaling, for years Governments allowed them to self regulate, and now stock have depleted to a point that catches have to be regulated.

Sure people may keep up with the sidewalk and roads in front of their houses, of course poor neighborhoods would get screwed, but common infrastructure like freeways and bridges would fall into ruin.