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Dubbed a “philosopher king of Internet law,” by The New York Times, Lawrence Lessig is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prior to this he was a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he founded Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. For much of his academic career, Lessig has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He is the author of five books on the subject and has served as lead counsel in a number of important cases marking the boundaries of copyright law in a digital age.

Eli Pariser is the board president and former executive director of MoveOn.org, which at five million members is one of the largest citizens' organizations in American politics. During his time leading MoveOn, he sent 937,510,800 e-mails to members in his name. He has written op-eds for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on The Colbert Report, Good Morning America, Fresh Air, and World News Tonight. In his renowned book The Filter Bubble, Pariser reveals how personalization undermines the Internet's original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ideas.

Currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. A contributing editor of and blogger for Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the blog Net Effect, Morozov has previously been a Yahoo! fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, a fellow at the Open Society Institute, director of new media at the NGO Transitions Online, and a columnist for the Russian newspaper Akzia. In 2009 he was chosen as a TED fellow where he spoke about how new technology can empower both social change and the policies of repressive regimes.

Jacob Weisberg is the editor in chief of The Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company. A native of Chicago, he attended Yale University and New College, Oxford. From 1989 until 1994, he worked as a writer and editor at The New Republic. Between 1994 and 1996, he wrote the National Interest column for New York Magazine. In the fall of 1996, he joined Slate as Chief Political Correspondent. He succeeded Michael Kinsley as editor of Slate in 2002. He has also been a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington, and a weekly columnist for the Financial Times. In 2007, Min Magazine named him Web Editor of the Year.