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  1. The open internet: who’s had the most impact?

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    We’ve chosen a list of 20 people who have influenced the open internet:

    • Rickard Falkvinge, founder, the Pirate party
    • Birgitta Jonsdottir, MP, The Movement, Iceland
    • John Perry Barlow, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
    • Jacob Appelbaum, Advocate, researcher and Developer, Tor project
    • Julian Assange, editor-in-chief, WikiLeaks
    • Ada Lovelace, computer programmer
    • Richard Stallman, founder, Free Software Foundation
    • Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web
    • Professor Sebastian Thrun, founder, Udacity
    • Anons, legion, everywhere
    • Bram Cohen, chief scientist, BitTorrent
    • Linus Torvalds, chief architect, Linux
    • Lawrence Lessig, founder, Creative Commons
    • Alex MacGillivray, general counsel, Twitter
    • Dr Susan Landau, cybersecurity researcher, Guggenheim Fellow
    • Jimmy Wales, chairman, Wikimedia foundation
    • Peter Sunde, co-founder, Pirate Bay
    • Clay Shirky, writer, assistant professor at New York University
    • Aaron Swartz, programmer, activist
    • Heather Brooke, journalist and activist

    But, who have we missed? Nominate your choices for the Open 20 here.

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