— 6 min read — I had the chance to contribute to a debate initiated by Baroness Kidron on social media and harms to children in the House of Lords yesterday. A sensitive issue that was raised during the work of the Joint Committee on the Online Safety Bill was the question of access to…
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— < 1 min read — It has been a while since I added a new post to this blog as I have been focused more on the spoken than the written word recently, recording a podcast most weeks with my friend Nicklas Lundblad. I hope to have time to produce more written articles soon but…
Leave a Comment— 13 min read — I spent a happy couple of days last week reading hundreds of pages of the UK draft Online Safety Bill with its explanatory notes and impact assessment. This legislative proposal is going to be scrutinised in detail over coming months as people try to flesh out what it will mean…
Leave a Comment— 2 min read — The European Commission published a comprehensive proposal to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on April 21st 2021. I have recorded a new podcast episode with Nicklas Berild Lundblad where we share some initial reactions to and thoughts about this proposal. A particular concern of mine is that…
Leave a Comment— 2 min read — There’s a lot of news right now which means that not everything momentous is making the headlines. The announcement of a new approach to corporate taxation by the Biden administration has not been a lead story but could turn out to have huge ramifications over the next few years. I…
Leave a Comment— < 1 min read — In this week’s episode of the regulate.tech podcast, Nicklas and I tease out what we mean when we talk about ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ models for the internet. We discuss web vs internet protocols, app stores, ‘walled garden’ services, government imposed restrictions and more!
Leave a Comment— 10 min read — A hot tech policy topic this year is whether internet services should pay news media companies for the news stories they carry on their platforms. A number of countries have previously passed laws with the intent of moving money from internet services to content publishers, but a new legislative proposal…
2 Comments— < 1 min read — I have been recording a regulate.tech podcast with Nicklas Berild Lundblad since the start of this year and we have produced 7 episodes covering topics like platform responsibility, misinformation, splinternets, and privacy. For our most recent episode, we thought it might be helpful to do something different and talk through…
Leave a Comment— 9 min read — Summary :- 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 Comment— 8 min read — Summary :- I look at questions of harm related to platform policies on nudity, and why these may result in blanket prohibitions.
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