Your cut-and-keep guide to the “unregulated wild west internet”
The next time a policymaker tells you that the internet is an "unregulated wild west", point them here to take the shine off their sheriff star.
Author: Heather Burns
What would a privacy curriculum for future developers look like?
A professor of software engineering got in touch to ask me a question: if I had an hour to speak to a room full of undergraduates about privacy, what - in my view - are the points they would be most likely to absorb?
Techdirt Podcast: Intermediary liability law is not a social safety net
I went on the Techdirt podcast to discuss the recent push, by governments and media alike, to scapegoat intermediary liability law where social safety nets have failed.
Why Generation X will save the web
Politicians want to regulate the internet as if a handful of companies are the open web. Why? Because for their young policy staffers, that's the only web they've ever known.
Tech prediction for 2021: it’s getting a bit “Children of Men” around here
What's ahead for UK internet regulation in 2021? It ain't good.
Facebook Derangement Syndrome
A status update from the front lines of tech policy.