Digital Media and the American Civil Conflict
Operation “Metro Surge” in Minneapolis-St. Paul, USA, has now attracted national and worldwide attention. Both sides in this conflict see it as a showdown. It is a showdown, and it matters who wins. In this blog, we try to focus on…
Join the Conversation: AI Governance and Global Economic Development
An Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 The Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech invites scholars, practitioners, students, and representatives from civil society to an essential dialogue on how AI governance shapes our global economic future. Event…
Has Article 19 abandoned Article 19?
Two staffers at Article 19 Digital have declared that the AWS outage is a “democratic failure.” On its face, this is a really weird argument. What failed, exactly, other than Amazon’s DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1?…
The shocking part of the TikTok settlement that no one’s talking about
There are many reasons to be concerned about freedom of expression in America these days. But one of them, and perhaps the most insidious, is going under the radar. I am talking about the framework agreement under which TikTok’s US…
Free Speech and the Kirk Assassination
It is a depressing sign of our illiberal times: the assassination of a right-wing youth organizer who embraced public debate and engaged in provocative free speech has provoked sweeping new threats to public debate and freedom of expression – from…
The New Republican Censorship-Industrial Complex
During the Biden administration, public relations writer Michael Shellenberger testified before that House that “American taxpayers are unwittingly financing the growth and power of a censorship-industrial complex run by America’s scientific and technological elite.” This “global censorship-industrial complex” was defined…
A Review of the Draft Report of the California Working Group on AI Frontier Models
In September 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked prominent researchers at Stanford, UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Endowment to prepare a report to help the State develop responsible guardrails for the deployment of Generative AI. Gov. Newsom’s action followed in the…
Who is the colonizer and who is colonized?
Review City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule Ho-Fung Hung. Cambridge University Press, 2022. It takes time to digest the meaning of an event of such monumental geopolitical importance as Hong Kong’s revolt against Chinese rule from 2003…
Why a TikTok Divestiture Never Happened
As this gets published we are about 18 hours away from TikTok going dark. From the standpoint of global Internet and data governance, the impending ban raises fascinating questions. If we look closely at how the US sought to ban…
Authoritarianism Goes Digital: The EUI Conference
A conference devoted to challenging “digital authoritarianism” is something that IGP can certainly get behind. But what is digital authoritarianism, and was it really being challenged in Italy on October 28 and 29? At the meeting “Decrypting Digital Authoritarianism: How…