Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK In late June, world attention abruptly turned to news of the U.S. entry into the Israel-Iran conflict with a bunker-buster bombing mission against Iran’s nuclear capabilities. President Trump and his Cabinet defended the move and asserted that the U.S. strikes had obliterated Iran’s nuclear facilities. President […]
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David Snead is an attorney based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the director of the Secure Hosting Alliance and runs a law firm representing Internet infrastructure providers. David has provided advice and counsel to technology companies since 1995 beginning with a practice based on technology exports. Since 1999, his practice has focused exclusively on the Internet infrastructure industry.
In 2011 he co-founded the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), an advocacy organization for the Internet infrastructure industry. David is chairman of the Board of Directors of CasaQ, a shelter for LGBTQ+ youth at risk of homelessness. David received his J.D. in 1991 from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A. in 1987 in International Affairs from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and State of New Mexico.
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We recently launched the DNS at Risk project to investigate how network blocking and infrastructure manipulation are undermining the global Internet’s neutrality and openness—as well as create a living document to catalog emerging and ongoing risks as they emerge worldwide. i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson recently appeared on the TechDirt Podcast to discuss this project […]
New Platform Documents DNS Blocking, Internet Fragmentation, and Global Censorship-by-Infrastructure June 3, 2025—Washington, D.C. Today, the i2Coalition (Internet Infrastructure Coalition) is launching a major new policy report and companion website titled DNS at Risk: How Network Blocking and Fragmentation Undermine the Global Internet. The initiative reveals the alarming trend of governments around the world increasingly […]
Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK Following days of tense intraparty negotiations, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) led the House Republicans’ May 22 passage by a 1-vote margin (215-214) of a massive budget reconciliation bill that is central to achieving President Trump’s economic agenda, including the extension of 2017 tax cuts and an […]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a call for public comments regarding censorship tactics by Internet platform providers, to get a better understanding of how these platforms limit users’ access due to what those users say online; and how consumers may have been harmed in the process. These platforms run the gamut from […]
Coalition on Digital Impact (CODI) has a mission that’s as simple as it is powerful: to ensure that every person can navigate the Internet in their own language. The i2Coalition is excited to join this exciting new initiative to fulfill the promise of an Internet that’s culturally and linguistically accessible to anyone in the world. […]
