PK, Advocates Form ‘Movement for a Better Internet’

Public Knowledge helped launch a coalition of public interest advocates Tuesday, with the goal of making the internet work “better for everyone.” Other organizing partners in the Movement for a Better Internet are the Creative Commons, the Niskanen Center, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, Derechos Digitales and the Association for Progressive Communications. The internet is “fraught” with “misinformation and manipulation; deceptive privacy practices; and all-powerful, unaccountable gatekeepers,” PK Senior Policy Analyst Lisa Macpherson said. “By joining the movement, we can ensure an internet shaped by our shared public interest values -- an internet that puts people and communities first.”