Should the Internet remain open or move toward greater state control? Read Kieren McCarthy’s exploration of the global Tug of War taking place this year in his latest blog:
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#InternetGovernance #IGF #WSIS

Everything about this visit of the Speaker to King Trump is depressing nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/…

Bit flash but you have to admire the competence on display here. At least there’s one cabinet member who is on top of their job

American style politics is really infecting the conservative end of UK politics

Crikey.
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What to look for in the zero draft of the GDC published today? Carolina’s blog revisits what we learned from the GDC’s open consultation phase and what concrete pointers to look for in the zero draft.
#InternetGovernance #GlobalDigitalCompact #WSIS #IGF
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Another internet revolution making its way to us: data transmission so fast that there are no limits. “Aston University researchers send data 4.5 million times faster than average broadband.” aston.ac.uk/latest-news/as…

Cautionary tale for our current moment of refusal to reconcile. Jarndyce and Jarndyce over a garden fence. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2…

This is nasty stuff, now mainstream, all over Telegraph. I live in the greatest multicultural city in the world. London. (And I have lived in New York, London does it better.)

The Digital Services Act came into force this month. Kieren McCarthy's latest blog looks at how harmful information on the Internet is dealt with and how the Supreme Court in America is looking at two significant social media legal cases dnsrf.org/blog/now-it-s-… #supremecourt

Another example of where a whistleblower has done the right thing in the public interest yet been given insufficient support and protection and, tragically, caved under the pressure. telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/0…

Times article on tax has a 42-year-old living in Islington earning £85,000 a year and paying £1,600 a month for his home. £1,600?! What world are they living in? Just did a search and there is just one - a single studio flat in Islington - at that price: thetimes.co.uk/article/645d78…

You have to start asking what level of insanity are we prepared to accept in the interests of political stability. Dropping air supplies on a very density populated area is dangerous. Everyone knows it; and today has shown it: nytimes.com/live/2024/03/0…

Freedoms always need to be protected even in the Land of the Free.

New York Times entering the denial phase… nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/…

Encouraging signs of some degree of accountability and adult behaviour in our ministers online. Long may it continue theguardian.com/politics/2024/…