<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Tech Innovators is essentially a loose coalition of old-school Internet folks who are anti-Title 2 because they think it'll screw things up. Led by VOIPers who do not want that industry in particular to be hamstrung, but including widely respected elders like ISOC Trustee Dave Farber and the EFF's John Perry Barlow. It will be interesting to hear what they have to say. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>
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joly posted: "Today Thursday April 30 2015 Tech Innovators – a civic initiative of Internet pioneers convened by VCXC founder Daniel Berninger - will celebrate the inaugural "Internet Independence Day" to mark the 20th anniversary of the commercialization of the Intern" </span>
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Where: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC<br>
When: Thursday April 30 2015 6pm-9pm EDT | 22:00-01:00 UTC<br>
Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/InternetIndependenceDay" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/InternetIndependenceDay</a><br>
Twitter: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/internetindependence?f=realtime&src=hash" target="_blank">#InternetIndependence</a></strong></p></div>
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