Gove-Pedia – The Donation Economy’s Dead End »

2 March 2021 | netopia

Many years ago at the Gothenburg book show, I was on stage with a representative from Wikipedia (technically the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia). Oh, and before I write anything else, let ... »

0 Comment

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t – Big Tech’s Free Speech Conundrum »

17 January 2021 | netopia

Social media platforms are under fire on freedom of speech after they banned President Trump: Twitter, Facebook, Youtube… in fact an impressive number of internet services have followed suit Every Soc... »

0 Comment

#KYBC: Oxford has Spoken »

4 December 2020 | netopia

Netopia has reported on how bad guys abuse domain names for Covid-scams. Not saying Oxford university reads Netopia, but it has come to very similar conclusions as the report we quoted. Here is a fres... »

0 Comment

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... »

0 Comment

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 ... »

0 Comment

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 ... »

0 Comment

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... »

0 Comment

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... »

0 Comment

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... »

0 Comment

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... »

0 Comment

« Newer posts

Older posts »