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How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (1577+ words) Tech Policy Press How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet Isaiah Berlin's 1958 lecture-essay, "Two concepts of liberty," distinguishes between the absence of external interference (negative liberty) and the capacity for autonomous action and self-mastery (positive liberty). The early…...
The EU's Age Verification Fix Creates More Problems Than it Solves
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (663+ words) But the reality is more complex, as the process requires identity proofing and biometric data being shared at least once. Early weaknesses in the App have already been identified. Paul Moore, a security consultant, shared a video hacking the app…...
New York City Should Stop Paying Corporations to Widen the Digital Divide
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (417+ words) In today's world, internet access is infrastructure. Like other utilities such as water or electricity, it should be operated for the public good. New York City can make this happen, but challenges abound. For instance, a 2025 report found that 22% of…...
A New Policy Framework for Governing Collective Sentiment in Online Communities
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (947+ words) Tech Policy Press A New Policy Framework for Governing Collective Sentiment in Online Communities In July 2025, gaming company GGWP launched Pulse, a tool that monitors player sentiment in real-time to help developers understand and respond to the emotional climate of…...
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Past Debates Over Satellite Broadcasting Hold Lessons for Dialogues on AI and Digital Sovereignty
1+ week, 6+ day ago (149+ words) The questions running through all of these processes'about power over digital infrastructure, about who sets the norms governing AI, about the relationship between national sovereignty and global interoperability'are among the defining governance challenges of our time. It is precisely in…...
India's Decentralized System of Internet Censorship
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (305+ words) Amber Sinha is a contributing editor at Tech Policy Press. Saini's report advances the technical understanding of how the Indian state's censorship is implemented. While earlier studies focused on the existence of blocks, Saini's work quantifies the methodology and magnitude....
What Digital Isolation and Censorship Evasion Look Like In Wartime Iran
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (242+ words) Four weeks into the war, Iran is plummeting toward total digital isolation with its internet blocked and communications heavily restricted and monitored. The country's government implemented a nationwide blackout shortly after the United States and Israel struck its cities and…...
How the Internet Can Survive an Era of Rivalry and Fragmentation
3+ week, 2+ day ago (348+ words) The internet expanded during a period marked by the ascendancy of globalization after the Cold War, when policymakers and technologists widely believed that economic integration and technological connectivity would encourage political convergence. Within this environment, the internet was frequently portrayed…...
As Competition Enforcers Gather, They Should Open the App Store Gates
3+ week, 5+ day ago (153+ words) Gene Burrus serves as global policy counsel for the Coalition for App Fairness, a nonprofit coalition that counts a wide range of app and game developers and service providers as members, including Epic Games, Spotify and Match Group. An Apple…...