Defending the Open Internet

matjohnson, Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.         David Pakman @pakman I am proud to support an #openinternet and urge the @FCC to reconsider it's misguided rule-making. nickgrossman.is/post/851289844… 08 May Defending the Open Internet Over the past few weeks, the future of the open internet has come into sharp focus, as the FCC's 2010 open internet rules were struck down in court, and then plans for new rules from the FCC came into... 7 Related tweets Andy Weissman @aweissman "I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be" - Rolling Stone on @notch rollingstone.com/culture/news/t… 07 May The Wizard of Minecraft Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch, is gaming's biggest rock star. But he may never make a second album 7 Related tweets Peter Kafka @pkafka Apple/Beats remains baffling to many sober people. Bur I took another attempt at explaining it, anyway. recode.net/2014/05/09/wha… 09 May What Is Tim Cook Thinking? Let's Read His Mind! You have questions about Apple's Beats deal? We have answers! (Which we made up ourselves. But still.) 4 Related tweets Kari Moe Straley @LinkedCom Congratulations @JaneParkJulep, Geekwire's CEO of the year lnkd.in/ba6Skws 09 May Revealed: The winners of the 2014 GeekWire Awards Rory Rawlings, co-founder and chief tax automation officer of Avalara, celebrates on stage after winning the award for Next Tech Titan. The best and bright 4 Related tweets Chris Dixon @cdixon "We need to rethink our strategy of hoping the Internet will just go away." pic.twitter.com/JU2WZ3XCeq 10 May 1 Retweet Calestous Juma @calestous Where the extremely poor live pic.twitter.com/J8Ps9MJ6kk via @conradhackett 10 May 1 Retweet Oscar Wilde @Wit_of_Wilde To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. 10 May 1 Retweet Marc Andreessen @pmarca @trengriffin Cultural and strategic degradation starts immediately upon removal of dominant leader. 10 May 1 Retweet Don't miss out. Stay up to date on what's happening. Go to Twitter Forgot your Twitter password? Get instructions on how to reset it. You can also change your email digest frequency or unsubscribe from these emails. Need help? If you received this message in error and did not sign up for Twitter, click not my account. Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St., Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103