Right now, you are using one very pinnacle of humankind’s engineering achievements.

The Internet.

You have tremendous access to information from around the globe.

You can read this webpage.

You can read any webpage out of millions of others.

You could create your own webpage,

without any one else knowing or inferfering.

But…

What if authoritarian governments could stop you?

Democratic ones?

For profit companies?

Vigilantes?!

When we log onto the Internet most of us take for granted the right we have to write and say

whatever we want.

However, from bulk surveillance to Network Neutrality to DDoS-as-censorship, bloggers, activists, journalists, free thinkers, and everyday web surfers around the

world are being censored and taken offline just because the guy with the bigger stick doesn’t agree with their point-of-view.

The Internet was built for all of us, not just the powerful, but like with any resource people will try to take advantage of it for their

own gain.

If you use the internet or care about people who do, this panel will show you the most important basic human rights online, how to

expand and preserve those rights, and how to get involved.

SXSW 2015:

We Take It for Granted: Defending All Human Rights Online

Submitted by:Kenneth R. Carter

Counsel, CloudFlare(@carterkr)

Save the Web.

Save the World.