the
technologists'
agenda:
political
activism for
geeks

Al Qaeda
“the base”
“the database”

Representative Joe barton On Network
Neutrality:
“the average
congressman doesn't
know what the term
means.”

HR THE
DELETING
ONLINE
PREDATORS
Act of 2006

[ANTI-DOPA]
15
members of Congress
[pro-DOPA]
410
members of Congress

“I could not imagine going back to your
shareholders and saying:
‘OK, we really didn’t do
anything this year, but we
made our competitor look
bad.'

“Both sides do it and it’s
just fundamentally
baffling to me.”
-Mark Warner

MEDIA REFORM wireless
wireless spectrum
spectrum copyright
allocation ACCESS
Control of creative
content culture social tech
broadband rollout gaming
fracturing of the global
network

KEEPERS OF
THE MEDIUM
(The internet has a posse)

code is code.
Politics is messy.

“they were violently lacking in
compassion, ravingly anti-
government, and tremendously
opposed to regulation.
These are the inheritors of the
greatest government subsidy of
technology and expansion in
technical education the planet
has ever seen...”

“like the ungrateful
adolescent offspring of
immigrants who have made it
in the new country, they take
for granted the richness of
the environment in which they
have flourished, and resent
the hell out of the
constraints that bind them.”

technology
POLITICS

[thank you]