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Truth Lives in the Open: Lessons from Wikipedia

Published on September 15th, 2017 12:33AM by Internet Summit Team.

Victoria Coleman, CTO, Wikimedia Foundation Moderator: Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder & COO, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff MZ: What is the Wikimedia Foundation? VC: We pride ourselves in aiming to make available information broadly not-for-profit We’re the 5th most visited site on the planet. We are the guardians of the project. There are 12 projects that we support, Wikipedia is the most prominent but there are others that…

Will Data Destroy Democracy?

Published on September 15th, 2017 12:03AM by Internet Summit Team.

Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School and Darren Bolding, CTO, Cambridge Analytica Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff MP: If there’s one person responsible for the Trump presidency, it seems there is a compelling argument that that might be you. DB: I very much disagree with that. MP: How does Cambridge Analytica work, and how…

As Seen on TV

Published on September 14th, 2017 11:37PM by Internet Summit Team.

Chris Cantwell, Co-Creator and Show Runner, Halt & Catch Fire Moderator: John Graham-Cumming, CTO, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff CC: first off, we have very low ratings! The story came from my father who worked in computers in the early 80s in dallas; later in california. The dynamic between those characters was influenced by my dad. This was largely a story about reverse engineering. The underdog story was…

Private Companies, Public Squares

Published on September 14th, 2017 11:18PM by Internet Summit Team.

Daphne Keller, Director, Stanford Center for Internet & Society, and Lee Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff MP: Technology and law seem like they are colliding more and more. Tech companies are being asked to regulate content. For a largely non-lawyer audience, give us some foundations about basic rules when you have content…

Betting on Blockchain

Published on September 14th, 2017 10:20PM by Internet Summit Team.

Juan Benet, Founder, Protocol Labs, and Jill Carlson, GM, Tezos Foundation Moderator: Jen Taylor, Head of Product, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff JT: Tell us about what BlockChain is JC: Going back to 2008, advent of blockchain came with bitcoin white paper. The word Blockchain wasn’t mentioned at that point, but that was the advent of this tech. What it solved was niche problem called double spend…

The New Breed of Patent Trolls

Published on September 14th, 2017 9:38PM by Internet Summit Team.

Lee Cheng, President & Co-CLO, Symmetry IP LLC, and Vera Ranieri, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Moderator: Doug Kramer, General Counsel, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff DK: Patent--IP issues and challenges are accelerating important supreme court cases. there’s also a flurry of legislative activity about patents. Good idea to talk about this topic: where is this going? How to push world in virtuous direction? DK: current state…

If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Tales from the Early Internet

Published on September 14th, 2017 9:16PM by Internet Summit Team.

Paul Mockapetris, Inventor, DNS, and David Conrad, CTO, ICANN Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare Photo by Cloudflare Staff MP: You guys wrote all this stuff; why is the internet so broken? PM: People complain about security flaws, but there is no security in original design of dns. I think of it that we haven’t had the right investment in rebuilding the infrastructure. Original stuff was…