Veteran Washington trade groups seek new blood in Silicon Valley
Old-school Washington trade associations and think tanks are taking their membership pitches straight to Silicon Valley’s doorstep.Seeking to tap into the success of the sector, veteran influence...
View ArticleKerry calls to ‘tear down’ Internet censorship
Different countries’ control of the Internet is increasingly dividing the world into “two different visions” reminiscent of the Cold War, Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Monday.In remarks to a...
View ArticleRussia threatens to ban Twitter - in minutes
The Russian regulator of the Internet has threatened to block Twitter, amid growing fears that the country is trying to strangle the Web.“We can block Twitter or Facebook in Russia tomorrow within a...
View ArticleSilicon Valley, stand down from battling anti-sex trafficking bill
She looks like the teenage girl next door. She plays soccer and the violin, and wants to be a doctor when she grows up. After a fight with her parents over grades, in a foolish moment she runs away,...
View ArticleSex trafficking act would lead to censorship online, not safety
Changes unveiled last week to the controversial Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) have won the support of the Internet Association, which includes tech giants like Facebook and Twitter. While...
View ArticleRussia-type meddling found in 18 nations' elections last year: report
At least 18 nations holding elections in 2016 experienced some kind of information attacks similar to the Russian social media campaign in the U.S., according to a new report. The annual Freedom House...
View ArticleApple: Letting China block apps lets us keep bolstering free speech
Apple told senators that capitulating to the Chinese government's ban on certain privacy apps would help the iPhone continue to "promote greater opennness [sic] and facilitate the free flow of ideas...
View ArticleFive regulatory fights facing tech in 2018
Technology firms are facing tough regulatory fights in the coming year after a turbulent 2017.Emerging technologies, such as self-driving cars and digital currencies, are at a crossroads with new...
View ArticleCalls to split California reveal deeper problems in tech, politics
My grandfather, Gilbert Gable, who died over 75 years ago, is getting national press coverage. In 1941, in response to a state government that ignored the needs of the people in his area, he proposed...
View ArticleInvesting in internet freedom supports human rights, national security
There is growing recognition that internet freedom has become an indispensable human right of the 21st century. This new reality has created an urgent need to update America’s strategy for informing...
View ArticleNew European copyright rules: 'Best efforts' may render them...
With the rise of the Digital Age, the European Union was more than ripe for an overhaul on its Copyright Directive of 2001. Last week, the European Parliament voted in favor of the new Directive on...
View ArticleThe world will be freer, safer by smashing firewalls of closed societies
Closed society regimes openly acknowledge the internet’s ability to undermine their survival, and therefore they provide unlimited resources to maintain internet firewalls — the Berlin Walls of our...
View ArticleIs Big Tech biased?
If all you knew of America’s biggest tech companies was what emerges from the echo chambers and grandstanding that is Washington, D.C. political chatter, you’d likely have grave concerns about their...
View ArticleThe pandemic exposes realities of failing to combat global censorship
When Americans watch White House press briefings on the latest COVID-19 updates, we can check and double-check the information we’re given against multiple online sources. Most of us living in the U.S....
View ArticleIs the internet falling apart?
The president’s two August Executive Orders banning the mobile app TikTok and the mobile app WeChat, along with the State Department’s major foreign policy initiative for a “clean” internet within the...
View ArticleGovernment efforts to 'fix' social media bias overlooks the...
Enough with the bad CDA 230 takes and revisions. Just stop. Each week we seem to see another attempt to revise, do away with, or chip away at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that...
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