TechFreedom launched last week with a half-day symposium dedicated to our first publication, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet—including a fireside chat with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, three panels and a conversation about TechFreedom and its mission. Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Goldman, who has three essays in the book, provides a detailed write-up of the discussion on his blog.

Read a summary of the book here, or our Manifesto for TechFreedom. You can watch or download video from the event below (download links are at the bottom).

Fireside Chat: FCC Cmr. Robert McDowell & CNET’s Declan McCullagh

Welcome & Interview: Declan McCullagh & Berin Szoka

Panel 1: Internet Optimism, Pessimism & the Future of Online Culture

  • Berin Szoka, TechFreedom (Moderator)
  • Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur
  • Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center
  • Prof. Ann Bartow, South Carolina School of Law
  • Prof. Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall Law School

Panel 2: Internet Exceptionalism & Intermediary Deputization

  • Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center (Moderator)
  • Prof. Eric Goldman, Santa Clara School of Law
  • Josh Goldfoot
  • Prof. H. Brian Holland, Texas Wesleyan School of Law
  • Prof. Mark MacCarthy, Georgetown University
  • Prof. Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall Law School

Panel 3: Who Will Govern the Net in 2020?

  • Berin Szoka, TechFreedom (Moderator)
  • Prof. David Johnson, New York Law School
  • Prof. Milton Mueller, Syracuse University
  • Shane Tews, VeriSign
  • Chris Wolf, Hogan Lovells

Download Links

You can download video of these panels (in MPEG-4 h.264/AAC format) from the links below:

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