European Parliament’s Contradiction on Search and Network Neutrality »

5 December 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Network neutrality is great – it can mean whatever you want it to. When the European Parliament made network neutrality into law this spring, it said all internet traffic should be treated equally reg... »

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Spam from the Future – Netopia Goes to China »

4 December 2014 | Per Strömbäck

This writer was invited to speak at a couple of events in Hong Kong and Beijing this week, and of course, as any Westerner, I find the cultural differences fascinating. Take Hong Kong; designer handba... »

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Will Artificial Intelligence Be the End of Mankind? »

4 December 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Will artificial intelligence be the end of mankind? We should be worried, at least if the world’s smartest scholar, Stephen Hawking, is to be trusted. It is the speed of change that may unleash the Sk... »

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Doctorow’s Three Laws: One Problem, Zero Solution »

26 November 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Cory Doctorow is most known for his science fiction novels and his “internet activism” (he used to be the European Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), in a keynote speech at Stockholm’s I... »

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Mariam Kirollos to visit Netopia on Human Rights Day »

25 November 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Long-term Netopia readers will recall Mariam Kirollos’s thought-provoking piece “The Revolution Beyond 140 Characters” from last summer. While the rest of us were following the so-called Arab Spring f... »

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Permissionless innovation = endless litigation »

4 November 2014 | Per Strömbäck

The book Permissionless Innovation by Adam Thierer is an intro to "cyberlibertarianism,” according to Netopia’s review by Waldemar Ingdahl. The book aside, permissionless innovation is a concept often... »

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The Price We Pay for Anonymous Mass Media: Abuse, Harassment, Misogyny »

28 October 2014 | Per Strömbäck

In the past weeks, the video game world has been shocked by the hatred, threats, and misogynist harassment associated with the so-called Gamergate scandal, where trolls hiding behind aliases have atta... »

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Truth-Sayer Jaron Lanier Receives Peace Prize »

20 October 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Few people have inspired Netopia as Jaron Lanier. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Lanier received the Peace Prize of German Book Trade. A peace prize to a Silicon Valley pioneer? While that may sound odd,... »

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Privacy as the User’s Problem? »

8 October 2014 | Per Strömbäck

As Netopia reports in Jane Whyatt’s story “The Herod Clause”, open wifis have surfaced as a new threat to privacy and security online. By using open wifis, users reveal e-mail addresses, passwords, an... »

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Will New Digital Commissioners Put Europe in Forefront of Internet Governance? »

19 September 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Welcome to Netopia, where technology meets society. The Juncker commission has a strong focus on digital, not one but two nominated commissioners to cover this field: the German Commissioner for Di... »

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