that was crowd sourced and then having away when he does hypertext in the early days and even tim berners-lee when he creates the web in the early 90s they wanted to have systems were everyone could collaborate, but you could sort of allocate the resources to those would collaborate. >> do you see medium as something -- in transition a little bit kind of pain people which takes you away from your pure platform approach and then you have also been hosting publications that are kind of creating these collections of authors that are riding on a central theme. so how do you see the future as a collaboration tool? enable us to do things. >> well, collaboration has been a theme a theme since the beginning. from a broad perspective our goal is everyone sharing their ideas and stories all over the web and that's awesome. how can we make the whole greater than the sum of the parts? by bringing people together and let them build off of each other. other. the feature was one mechanism that we created to do that. and it occurred to us early on that the internet has been great historically at bringing peo

tim berners-lee from his lab in switzerland invented the world wide web in 1989.u think about ethics and human history -- the bronze age, iron age -- they asked they -- they spanned centuries. we are only a few years into this internet age. we have only scratched the surface. and as i guess they say at google, the future is awesome. [laughter] we have not even begun to imagine the discoveries and innovations that will be released in the decades to come. reflecting on his work in the 1960's on arcnet, the precursor of the internet, the late paul baron said this -- -- paul behrens said this it is like the work of a cathedral. over the course of hundreds of years, more people come along and each lays a block on the foundation, each saying "i built the cathedral." then comes an historian who says, who built the cathedral? and he says if you're not careful, you can con yourself into believing you did the most important part. but everything is tied to everything else. everything is tied to everything else.

even tim berners-lee wanted to have systems where everybody could collaborate but you could allocate the resources. >> do you see medium as something -- you have been making a transition in paying people to create content for you , which takes you away from the pure platform approach. you have also been hosting publications that are creating these collections of authors that are writing on a central theme. how do you see the future of medium as the collaboration tool that can enable authors to do things like this? >> collaboration have been it seems the beginning. from a very broad perspective our goal is everyone to share their ideas and stories all over the web., but how can we make the whole better than the sum of the part? this was one mechanism we created to do that. it occurred to us early on but the internet has been great historically at bringing people together to create things that are better than what they could do on their own. you see examples of this commercially and noncommercially with wikipedia and open source software. other types of this content is often that someo

collaborative, and open internet envisioned by those were there at the start including the legendary tim berners-lee. this is a big deal. what is also a big deal is 4 million voices. 4 million americans wrote this agency to make known there ideas, thoughts, and deeply held opinions about internet openness. they lit up our phone lines client our e-mail inboxes and jammed our online comment system that might be messy but whatever our disagreements are our network neutrality i hope we can agree that is democracy in action and something we should all support. >> commissioner. [applause] thank you. what you edited out was your leadership throughout this process, your championing of open voices. we we will hear a lot up here today but the most important is one simple, short word. thank you. commissioner. >> thank you. americans love the free and open internet. we relish of freedom to speak, post, rally, learn listen, watch and connect online. the internet has become a powerful force for freedom hear and around the. it is said to witness sad to witness the fcc's unprecedented attempts to replace that freed

even tim berners-lee wanted to have systems where everybody could collaborate but you could allocate the resources. >> do you see medium as something -- you have been making a transition in paying people to create content for you , which takes you away from the pure platform approach. you have also been hosting publications that are creating these collections of authors that are writing on a central theme. how do you see the future of medium as the collaboration tool that can enable authors to do things like this? >> collaboration have been it seems the beginning. from a very broad perspective our goal is everyone to share their ideas and stories all over the web., but how can we make the whole better than the sum of the part? this was one mechanism we created to do that. it occurred to us early on but the internet has been great historically at bringing people together to create things that are better than what they could do on their own. you see examples of this commercially and noncommercially with wikipedia and open source software. other types of this content is often that someo

and open internet envisioned by those who were there at the start including the legendary sir tim berners-leethe creator of the world wide web whom we have had the privilege of to hear from today. this is a big deal. what is also a big deal is 4 million voices. 4 million americans wrote this agency to make known their ideas, thoughts, and deeply held opinions about internet openness. they lit up our phone lines clogged our e-mail inboxes and jameedmed our online comment system. that might the messy but what ever are disagreements are on network neutrality, i hope we can agree that is democracy in action. and something we can all support. >> commissioner? [applause] thank you for your trenchant presentation. what you edited out which are leadership throughout this process, your champing -- ch ampioning of open voices. we will hear a lot of words up here today but the most important words is one simple short word -- i. thank you. commissioner? >> thank you, mr. chairman. americans love the free and open internet. we relish our freedom to speak, post, rally, to learn to listen, to watch, and to