On the Internet Nobody Knows You’re… an Arms Dealer »

25 November 2020 | netopia

One of the oldest jokes about the internet is “On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog”, by cartoonist Peter Steiner, first published in the New Yorker magazine in 1993. While the opposite is also t... »

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Making Sense of DSA, 230, Thai Food and Swimming Pools »

30 October 2020 | netopia

Nobody has explained Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act better than Wired Magazine’s editor in chief Nick Thompson the other day in a tweet: Why does section 230 allow tech companies ... »

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Twilight of Ads and Dawn of a Better Free »

26 October 2020 | netopia

Online advertising – the business model that made Big Tech’s fortune – is under attack. Legislators and regulators on various levels take stabs at the incumbent platforms, with competition or privacy ... »

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Virtual Panorama »

8 October 2020 | netopia

What if someone were to make a scale 3D-model of your city, in virtual reality? What if they were to invite certain people to interact with that model, adding a layer of perception that is only availa... »

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Holding One’s Breath for Ice-Cream (or News Beef Down-Under) »

22 September 2020 | netopia

Familiar patterns play out in the Southern hemisphere. After the copyright fight in South Africa, Australia is next in line – this time about news. The digital struggles of the newspapers are well-kno... »

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Milk-Man vs Sugar-Man »

7 September 2020 | netopia

No, that’s not a movie with unusually lame superheroes. Bear with me. I wrote recently about the copyright reform in South Africa. It led me to find out more, it was astonishing and oddly connected to... »

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Copyright, Copyleft, Copysouth »

4 August 2020 | netopia

South African copyright law faces reform, albeit with some delay as president Ramaphosa has sent two bills back to the National Assembly for reconsideration. There are many sides to this reform, one c... »

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Youtube Block Party »

31 July 2020 | netopia

Youtube does not like to block users or filter content, except when it helps their business. Youtube CEO Susanne Wojcicki wrote this on her blog: /…/it threatens to block users in the EU from vi... »

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What Could Make Tech Platforms Do the Right Thing? »

9 July 2020 | netopia

There have been many candidates including pressure from policy-makers and regulators, but thus far no end of congressional hearings or EU fines have done more than dent the stock price. Calls from org... »

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Good Samaritan Paradox Paradox »

12 June 2020 | Per Strömbäck

The classic example of the good Samaritan-paradox is if you intervene at a traffic accident, by moving a victim away from traffic in order to avoid them being run-over by other cars, you should not be... »

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