Today there was a lot of talk at the IGF about corporate responsibility and censorship in repressive regimes. It was a wonderful opportunity to bash China, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. This is certainly a complex topic with arguments to be made for both engagement and refusal to deal under certain [...]
Okay, so it’s just a catchy title but an irony of this ridiculous debate about corporate responsibility just the same. Here at IGF in Athens, there’s a discussion of how corporations should use their “massive bargaining power” to influence the internal policies of repressive regimes. As discussed in my previous [...]
Under the heading “let me just assert this and maybe people will believe it,” I keep hearing this argument about “open standards” being the metaphorical cure for cancer in the IT sector. Of course, no one is really sure what they mean when they come out with this rhetoric. In [...]
Net neutrality may not be going anywhere at the Federal level-at least not this year-but it is making great strides at the state level. And guess who is pro net neutrality? Yep, that's right, the phone companies...the phone companies? Believe it or not, telecom companies have successfully pushed for net [...]