<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">For your consideration -- a TL;DR approach.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I don't remember where I got it, but I have evolved a fairly straightforward, jargon-reduced version of "open Internet" based on three fundamental components in elevator-pitch format:</div><div class="gmail_default"><ol><li><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Open access:</b> Minimized barriers to entry, facilitating affordable connectivity and informed consent in participation</font></li><li><font color="#0b5394"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Open standards:</b> Maximized innovation and competition w</font>ithout intellectual-property or other artificial impediments</font></li><li><font color="#0b5394"><b>Open content:</b> Minimized censorship and political barriers between providers and consumers of information and services</font></li></ol><div><font color="#0b5394">Of course, each oh these is expandable into a thesis-sized description, but IMO best to start simple so to be able to express the ideas simply before discovering the further interest of your audience. A comprehensive description that only policy-wonks or technical geeks will read is useful but only to a point. These concepts need to be understood by the masses.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto, Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div>
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