The Narrative is a twice-monthly survey of key developments in Internet governance. This time we take up competition law activity against platforms, and the EU data governance initiative. Competition policy and platforms As Internet-driven platforms achieve ever-greater prominence and market power in the 21st century, antitrust actions are proliferating based...
Today, IGP releases a new research paper on the politics of the new Transport Layer Security standard: Standardizing Security: Surveillance, Human Rights, and TLS 1.3. The research was done by Colin J. Kiernan, a graduate of Georgia Tech's Masters of Science in Cybersecurity Policy program, with theoretical work by Dr....
The Narrative is a twice-monthly survey of key developments in Internet governance. This time we assess the impact of the U.S. Presidential election on IG, and assess the results of the first virtual UN Internet Governance Forum. A new U.S. President The United States has elected Joe Biden, and this...
This is the text of the keynote speech delivered by Milton Mueller at the 2020 conference of the Hague Program for Cyber Norms of Leiden University. Special thanks to Prof. Dennis Broeders for the invitation. A recording of the talk, which includes slides and many good follow up questions, is...
The Narrative is a twice-monthly survey of key developments in Internet governance. This time we take up Facebook's struggles with content moderation, the geopolitics of 5G, and coordinated efforts by governments to limit encryption. Platforms and Content Moderation Platforms continue to struggle with the controversies and contradictions of content moderation,...