Last month, Cory Doctorow talked with Al Gore, Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee in Mexico City about privacy, freedom, neutrality and democracy in the context of the Internet and the Web. Shaky handheld video is embedded below — the audio is worth tuning in, however, even if the video is a bit jumpy.
Hat tip to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, who writes:
We had a wide-ranging discussion, but kept circling back to the threats and promises for the net — copyright wars, privacy wars, government and grassroots. It was a lot of fun, and quite an honor, and I’m happy to see they’ve got the video online.
[…] Gore didn’t quite invent the Internet, but in the ’90s he was key in popularizing the idea of an “information superhighway,” he authored legislation spurring the development of commercial uses of the Internet, and he’s long been a proponent of Internet freedom. […]