Remember when Wikipedia protested SOPA by shutting down for a day, forcing you to extract facts from your own brain? Remember when you spent 24 hours claiming Charlie Sheen was in Three Men and a Baby? Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon will explain how an unholy axis of government and corporate media wants to make your life like that all the time. In her timely new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, MacKinnon proposes a sort of internet bill of rights demanding that the World Wide Web serve people first and corporations second. (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, www.townhallseattle.org, 7:30 pm, $5)