Emergence, Rise and Fall of Surveillance Capitalism, Part 2: Rise and Fall
"We are still in the early days of an information civilization. The third decade is our opportunity to match the ingenuity and determination of our 20th-century forebears by building the foundations...
View ArticleInternational Law and Cyberspace: It's the "How", Stupid
The Internet has enhanced freedom of communication, ignored national borders, and removed time and space barriers. But the Internet sphere was never a law-free zone. Already ICANN's "Articles of...
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The Government of Niue Launches Proceedings With ICANN to Reclaim Its .nu...
The Government of Niue, a small island 2,400 kilometers northeast of New Zealand, launched proceedings today demanding a "redelegation" of its country code top-level domain, .nu, from the Internet...
View ArticleNTIA Objects to Planned o.com Auction
Agency asserts interest in trademark protections for Internet's largest domain name registry According to media sources, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) wrote to...
View ArticleReshaping Cyberspace: Beyond the Emerging Online Mercenaries and the...
Ahmed Mansoor is an internationally recognized human rights defender based in the Middle East and recipient of the Martin Ennals Award (sometimes referred to as a "Nobel Prize for human rights"), On...
View Article.com Is A Clear and Present Danger to Online Safety
Shareholders benefit from registry operator providing sanctuary to online criminals and child sex abusers; Congress instructed NTIA to fix the problem — here's how. "The Internet is the real world...
View ArticleWhy the Internet is Not Like a Railroad
When one person transmits the speech of another, we have had three legal models, which I would characterize as Magazine, Bookstore, and Railroad. The Magazine model makes the transmitting party a...
View ArticleThe Netizen's Guide to Reboot the Root (Part I)
Rampant dysfunction currently plagues the Internet's root zone where a predatory monopolist has captured ICANN and is bullying stakeholders. This harms the public interest and must be addressed —...
View ArticleFreedom of Expression Part 4: Censorship, COVID-19, the Media and Assault on...
As I write this, it is World Holocaust Day, 27th January 2021, a memorial of the atrocious events that shocked and outraged the conscience of humanity and gave birth to the Universal Declaration of...
View ArticleEmergence, Rise and Fall of Surveillance Capitalism, Part 1: Emergence
"We are still in the early days of an information civilization. The third decade is our opportunity to match the ingenuity and determination of our 20th-century forebears by building the foundations...
View ArticleFreedom of Expression Part 5: COVID Vaccines not Mandatory
In Part 4 of the Freedom of Expression series, I had highlighted my concerns about the lack of transparency in ingredients of all the COVID-19 vaccines, which has been addressed by Council of Europe's...
View ArticleThe Netizen's Guide to Reboot the Root (Part II)
Rampant dysfunction currently plagues the Internet's root zone where a predatory monopolist has captured ICANN and is bullying stakeholders. This harms the public interest and must be addressed —...
View ArticleEU Rulings on Geo-Blocking in Digital Storefronts Will Increase Piracy Rates...
For the longest time, it was an insurmountable challenge for those in the developing world to be able to afford to legally consume multimedia products. Prices originally set in Dollars, Euros or Yen...
View ArticleEmergence, Rise and Fall of Surveillance Capitalism, Part 2: Rise and Fall
"We are still in the early days of an information civilization. The third decade is our opportunity to match the ingenuity and determination of our 20th-century forebears by building the foundations...
View ArticleCybersecurity Tech Accord: 98% of Registrar Whois Requests Unrequited
When a brand goes so far as to ask a domain name registrar for Whois (the registration contact details) of a potentially abusive domain name, there's likely a lot at stake. Most often, the request is...
View ArticleFacebook Stays, Everybody's Happy, but Nothing Has Changed
After some turmoil, Facebook won the war with the Australian Government as the necessary changes were made to the legislation that avoided them needing to change their business model. Those subtleties...
View ArticleThe Future of Europe's Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse
Like much of how the Internet is governed, the way we detect and remove child abuse material online began as an ad hoc set of private practices. In 1996, an early online child protection society posted...
View ArticleMultistakeholderism Is Working: A Short Series of Articles
I was in a conversation with a close friend the other day, you know the kind where you have been friends for so long that you have endured each other experimenting with changed politics, evolving...
View ArticleEnding U.S. Government Amnesia About Its Legacy Internet Registries is in the...
On July 2, 2002, Damien Cave published an interview on Salon.com with John Gilmore, "original 'cypherpunk' and all-around Internet supergeek," titled "It's time for ICANN to go." In this wide-ranging...
View ArticleIs ICANN Running a Racket?
On March 13, 2019, I published an article on CircleID, Portrait of a Single-Character Domain Name, that explored the proposed release and auction of o.com, a single-character .com domain name that was...
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