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Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark has taught at Stanford and Yale about technology and the Internet, starting the Ideas for a Better Internet Program at Stanford to engage students in working on projects[…]

The Flipped Future

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Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark describes how Internet activism stopped legislation such as SOPA, which she saw as a threat to online freedom.

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