Open Internet

An open internet allows its users to maximize the opportunities for free expression and innovation offered by an accessible, interconnected, and unrestricted platform. To help the internet retain its democratic values and openness, we work to protect users’ rights to access, create, and share content and services.

Governments and companies that control vital communications infrastructures should not be allowed to leverage that control to limit access, expression, or innovation. But neither should companies be saddled with the responsibility to protect the interests of content owners. Moreover, competition among infrastructure owners, platforms, content owners, and other players in the internet ecosystem plays a vital role in ensuring that the internet is accessible to all and continues to drive innovation.

CDT works with lawmakers, industry, and the public to balance the rights of users, rights-holders, and infrastructure providers, to promote our vision of an open and innovative internet.

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CDT Joins Coalition Letter to the Biden Administration on Protecting the Free and Open Internet. White document on a grey background.

CDT Joins Coalition Letter to the Biden Administration on Protecting the Free and Open Internet

CDT joins others in letter opposing the Pro Codes Act. White document on grey background.

CDT Joins Others in Letter Opposing the Pro Codes Act

CDT Comments Supporting Right to Repair Petition to FTC. White document on a grey background.

CDT Comments Supporting Right to Repair Petition to FTC

CDT Comments to FCC on Re-Imposing Net Neutrality. White document on a grey background.

CDT Comments to FCC on Re-Imposing Net Neutrality

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The Time Has Come to Recognize the Right to Repair

CDT Files Amicus Brief in Hatchette v. Internet Archive, in Support of Controlled Digital Lending Efforts and Readers’ Privacy. White document on a grey background.

CDT Files Amicus Brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, in Support of Controlled Digital Lending Efforts and Readers’ Privacy

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