Internet governance needs to develop ambitions
In November 2010, I had just arrived in Brussels. I attended the Paradiso conference - the ending ceremony of a project about online cultures and opportunities, developed within a European Commission...
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A heterostakeholder cooperation for sustainable internet policymaking
Modern democracies have been characterised by the attribution of the decision-making and law-making monopoly to the executive and legislative organs of the state, where citizens’ representatives are...
View ArticleInternet censorship in Turkey
IntroductionAt the beginning of 2015 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an advocacy group that defends civil liberties in the digital world, wrote in one of its reports that “Turkey has been a...
View ArticleJurisdiction on the net
For many years there has been a close-to-philosophical debate about what the cross-border nature of the internet meant and how national law should deal with it.But with more and more court cases and...
View ArticleRussia's 'dictatorship-of-the-law' approach to internet policy
At the latest Russian Internet Governance Forum – a gathering of the business community, officials, and the civil society to discuss internet regulation – the “sovereignty” of the Russian internet...
View ArticleBig data: a game changer for social scientists
Once, Mike Savage predicted the downfall of sociology – but now, he revises his pessimism. In 2007, his famous essay “The coming crisis of empirical sociology” had caused quite a stir. Back then, he...
View ArticleBeyond the GDPR, above the GDPR
Swallowing the fundamental rights dimension of EU data protection lawAs the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Council and the European Parliament seems to be...
View ArticleFree expression gaps in the General Data Protection Regulation
This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online. In an earlier introduction and FAQ, I...
View ArticleYouTube blocking in Turkey, another violation of fundamental rights
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday, 1 December 2015, that the blanket blocking of YouTube by Turkish authorities violated the right to freedom of information. But not even the...
View ArticleIntermediaries and free expression under the GDPR, in brief
Cross-posted to Stanford Law School’s CIS BlogDisclosure: I previously worked on "Right to Be Forgotten" issues as Associate General Counsel at Google.Europe’s pending General Data Protection...
View ArticleCriteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in internet governance
IntroductionThis paper proposes a set of four criteria of meaningful stakeholder inclusion in global internet governance processes, that can simplify the process of examining and critiquing processes...
View ArticleThe Brazilian approach to internet intermediary liability: blueprint for a...
Introduction: the need for a global framework for internet intermediary liabilityInternet intermediaries are, in the most generic form, those entities providing services that enable individuals to...
View ArticleThe small big-data-government: do like Estonia does?
Disclaimer: the article was updated by the Editorial team on 23 March 2016 at 5:24 pm CET to support the statement made with regard to Georgia. We read the news, send photos and shop online. Only our...
View ArticleMultilevel constitutionalism and e-democracy
As a scholar of constitutional law, of European and international law, having along the way gathered some knowledge of the workings of the internet, I am happy to present some perhaps somewhat...
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’Governance by Things’ as a challenge to regulation by law
Recent debates in the media (Curtis, 2015; Hardy, 2015; Peterson, 2015) and academic discourse about the Internet of Things (hereinafter ‘IoT’) are stimulating public interest in this topic. Although...
View ArticleICANN taking next steps to model internet self-governance
With the ball on the IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources - transition in the...
View ArticleAnalysing internet policy as a field of struggle
The discursive institutionalisation of key conflicts in the German internet policy field Disclaimer: The theoretical reflections and empirical findings presented in this essay emerged from the...
View ArticleSharing killed the AVMSD star: the impossibility of European audiovisual...
This paper is part of 'Regulating the sharing economy', a Special Issue of the Internet Policy Review.Defining sharing economyThe ‘sharing economy’ is a concept that has received a lot of attention in...
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Taxis and crowd-taxis: sharing as a private activity and public concern
This paper is part of 'Regulating the sharing economy', a Special Issue of the Internet Policy Review.IntroductionThe sharing economy is rapidly affecting different transport markets. One such sector...
View ArticleDoing internet governance: practices, controversies, infrastructures, and...
Papers in this special issueEditorial: Doing internet governance: how science and technology studies inform the study of internet governance Dmitry Epstein, University of Illinois at Chicago, United...
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