The Free Network Foundation

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internet
interview by ELISE GALLANT

 

The Free Network Foundation is an advocate for Internet freedom based on the belief that access to the Internet is a human right. To protect that right, it has envisioned a radical new Internet — one that is owned and operated by its users. Isaac Wilder, executive director of the FNF, calls on Web users to defend their digital transmissions as personal intellectual property and explains his vision for the emergence of a public Internet with protected privacy.

ELISE GALLANT — How do you visualize the Internet?
ISAAC WILDER — Imagine the Internet as a bunch of people in a room. They’re trying to pass messages back and forth, but they can only do it if they know the name and number of the person they’re sending it to. The people who…