We are proud to announce David Clark as the winner of the 2025 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award!

This award recognizes his decades of leadership in developing the Internet’s technical community and core Internet architecture.

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The US Supreme Court will soon consider a case that could fundamentally change how you access the Internet and affect everyone who uses it. Today, the Internet Society filed an amicus brief in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, a case considering whether Internet service providers (ISPs) should be held liable if they do not […]

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A scientific expedition in Argentina is becoming a cultural phenomenon thanks to the Internet, pulling in thousands of livestream viewers.

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The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) is an open data, open standards initiative supported by the Internet Society.  

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The White House's Roadmap to Enhancing Routing Security is an important step toward strengthening routing security in the United States.

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The US Department of Commerce began implementing better routing security practices—a step in the right direction for wider MANRS adoption.

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Asking TikTok, Google, and Apple to more intrusively track nearly every American with a cell phone, based on the possibility that a TikTok user might enter Montana, would be a significant invasion of privacy. And yet that is the likely outcome if Montana’s law SB 419 is allowed to take effect.  A law that claims […]

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As we celebrate Earth Day 2024, the world seems to be on fire. Quite literally with some regions battling extreme wildfires, while other regions are drowning under massive flooding. Sea levels are rising, temperatures are climbing, and ice is melting. Amid all of this, it’s worth pausing and thinking about the Internet’s relationship with climate […]

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The US Federal Communications Commission recently released a draft Declaratory Ruling and Order in the Open Internet Proceeding. However, there is concerning language (paragraph 46) in this ruling that strongly implies the FCC’s intention to regulate border gateway protocol (BGP) routing security. While the FCC’s motives may be well-intentioned, regulating BGP routing security could have […]

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Canada's Online Harms Act should be an example of how to protect the fundamentals of the Internet while improving online safety.

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If any two people across the world from each other access the Internet at the same time, will they experience the same thing? To answer this question, some people may point out that people in China experience something much different than the rest of the world because of content filtering and the Great Firewall. Others […]

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Partnering with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), we believe that MANRS will continue to be further established as the globally recognized benchmark for global routing security.

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We testified in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law in support of Section 230.

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We must defend the Internet whenever there are threats, whether they come from a country, a corporation, or a misguided policy.

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We encourage everyone interested in defending an open Internet to contribute to the European Commission's public consultation on the potential developments of the connectivity sector and its infrastructure.

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Brussels Internet governance workshop gives voice to critical stakeholders.

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As proponents of new interconnection rules in Europe champion a new settlement regime, based on a model of “sending party pays”, there is one important question looming over the debate: why are proponents not championing the case of South Korea, where similar rules were implemented? The simple answer: it’s not a favorable example. The story […]

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Political actions to prevent people in other countries from access to the Internet could set a dangerous precedent that leads to splinternet.

The post Sanctions Can Deny Internet Access When People Need It Most appeared first on Internet Society.

If we stop treating the Internet as a technology-neutral, general purpose network, we'll lose it. 

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Learn how to protect what the Internet needs to exist and thrive—then do something today.

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