Law for the Excluded Middle »

16 July 2021 | netopia

Most of the headaches of the digital world seem to have one common denominator: there is someone in the middle who could do something but doesn’t. Whether it’s fake news, terrorism content, revenge po... »

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If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next »

23 June 2021 | netopia

“But… if we don’t do it, somebody else will” – ever heard that? It’s the worst excuse ever, but it can be used to justify anything – pushing drugs at the schoolyard, selling “dual use” surveillance te... »

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Football’s Social Media Boycott »

2 May 2021 | netopia

The Bank Holiday weekend in May is a big occasion in English football, but this year is different. Protesting against social media’s inaction toward racist abuse online, in a rare move the major footb... »

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Will Crypto Save Art? Or Saving Art from Crypto »

21 April 2021 | netopia

Fungible – raise your hand if you had heard this word before the hype around NFTs – non-fungible tokens. I sure had not (I first thought it had something to do with mushrooms). It means exchangeable, ... »

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Netopia Will Be Televised »

26 March 2021 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia goes television – that’s right, in the spirit of democratized media, Netopia goes to video. In a series of interviews, your humble editor will meet key people in digital policy and discuss the... »

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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 ... »

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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... »

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#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... »

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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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