3+ hour, 34+ min ago   (407+ words) Until now, the question of who governs childhood online has largely been a platform-level argument. It has historically depended on what Instagram permits, how TikTok moderates, or whether an AI companion app enforces age limits at all. "I think you're…...

5+ hour, 28+ min ago   (421+ words) Demeaning and degrading, appalling, disgusting. These are just a handful of the arresting descriptors that European Union and United Kingdom lawmakers have reached for in recent days, in response to the latest obscene content-related scandal engulfing the platform X and…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (653+ words) David Kaye is a law professor at UC Irvine, a former UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, and the author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (2019). The problem? Among other things, it's not true. There…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (925+ words) "Analog Lecture on Computing" (Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / Better Images of AI) In recent years, policymakers have rapidly increased their efforts to regulate artificial intelligence and automated decision systems through new legislation. These legislative approaches, however, are not advancing…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (285+ words) On January 6, Google notified its proposed USD 32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz to the European Commission. This marks a pivotal moment, not only for the future of cloud markets, but also for whether European competition policy is finally…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (528+ words) This was not an obscure bureaucratic adjustment. It was a declaration. The US has now formally stepped away from a core element of the normative architecture it helped build to shape the global Internet. Whatever rhetoric Washington continues to use…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (129+ words) Rachel Lau, J.J. Tolentino, and Shirley Frame work with leading public interest foundations and nonprofits on technology policy issues at Freedman Consulting, LLC. Ben Lennett is the managing editor of Tech Policy Press. Read on to learn more about December developments in…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (920+ words) We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'Tech Policy Press We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' New and unprecedented, is it? by Ada Ju'i" & Eleonora Lima (KCL) / Better Images of AI / CC by 4.0 "AI…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (686+ words) New York Mayor Eric Adams Built a Drone Dystopia. Mamdani Shouldn't Let it Fly.Tech Policy Press New York Mayor Eric Adams Built a Drone Dystopia. Mamdani Shouldn't Let it Fly. We've all heard the phrase "look up in the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (519+ words) TikTok last month reportedly signed a deal to transfer ownership and control of its United States app to a group of investors, led by software services company Oracle, investment firm Silver Lake and Emirati investment firm MGX. According to reports,…...