The Balkans, already facing charges of bringing the world the First World War and the term ‘ethnic cleansing’, are now being blamed with a new offence: ‘Cyber-Balkanisation’.
For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not need the shock therapy of Trumpian politics.
ينسى الجمهور حقيقة توحش السلطة، وسينشغل بمهمة مناورة وترويض الحقائق البديلة على اختلاف تجلياتها، حفاظاً على مساحة الحياة التي تضيق تحت قدميه كلما توسعت آفاق الواقع.
ينسى الجمهور حقيقة توحش السلطة، وسينشغل بمهمة مناورة وترويض الحقائق البديلة على اختلاف تجلياتها، حفاظاً على مساحة الحياة التي تضيق تحت قدميه كلما توسعت آفاق الواقع.
The scramble for data is unleashing a new form of colonialism: turning a quintessentially open internet into a series of closed, controllable cyber-spaces, where a few players have unprecedented influence.
Digital equality demands that access to the internet is seen as indivisible from a democratic internet. Net neutrality is not just about an open architecture, but about genuine egalitarianism – meaning internet access.
Repealing net neutrality would result in the de facto concentration of internet control of revenue from accessible services into the hands of certain gatekeepers, undermining the open architecture that allows the free exchange of ideas.
The controversial law allows investigating authorities to install a malware, the so-called ‘state trojan’, on smartphones, tablets and computers during a criminal investigation.
The key to advancing policies is to build diverse political support at grassroots level, leveraging that support against policymakers who put party loyalty before the needs of their constituents.
