What the New Internet Lobby Looks Like: An Interview with Internet Association’s Michael Beckerman

Posted: 2012/09/21 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

A measure of our success is going to be to educate regulators and legislators and even the media on how the Internet works, and how the Internet economy impacts the broader U.S. and global economy, and the brick and mortar businesses, and how people are finding new and creative ways to use the Internet, just so the next SOPA never comes up. If SOPA 2.0 arises, we’ll be ready, and we’ll be ready to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with users to win that battle again, but I think a real measure of our success is to educate folks enough, so that we never have to have that battle, so that policymakers are mindful enough that they realize the great economic and social value that comes from the Internet.

Much more:

http://techpresident.com/news/22877/mashup-community-gets-voice

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