The Online Safety Bill has now completed its detailed scrutiny in the House of Lords and we have a new version that we can expect…
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The UK’s Online Safety Bill arrived in the House of Lords this week for its Second Reading. At this stage we have a debate about…
Leave a CommentThere is a lot happening at the moment to focus minds on the subject online content moderation. The EU has a new law coming into…
1 CommentI had the chance to contribute to a debate initiated by Baroness Kidron on social media and harms to children in the House of Lords…
Leave a CommentIt has been a while since I added a new post to this blog as I have been focused more on the spoken than the…
Leave a CommentA hot tech policy topic this year is whether internet services should pay news media companies for the news stories they carry on their platforms.…
2 CommentsSummary :- a reflection on sovereignty as a driver for internet regulation, even at the expense of convenience. I suggest it is more useful to look at the potential break-up of the global internet as a function of ‘Brexitisation’ rather than ‘Balkanization’.
Leave a CommentToday is the 10th anniversary of the start of massive protests in Egypt that led to the removal of their autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak. These…
Leave a CommentGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has attracted a lot of (mostly favourable) attention for criticising the recent removal of Donald Trump’s social media accounts. As it…
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