On January 23, 2020, the New America Weekly published a short essay I wrote recently. It updates an argument I made in my book and which I have been repeating over and over again ever since: Inte...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2020/01/26/rebooting-internet-freedom/
American democracy is entering uncharted and treacherous territory. Fabricated news to discredit political opponents, use of social media to manipulate the public discourse, and political ha...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2016/12/11/digital-bonapartism-russia-and-america-in-2016/
In June 2013 shortly after the first Snowden revelations on NSA surveillance came out, I gave a keynote address to the Freedom Online Conference in Tunis. Three years later I was asked to addres...
This blog has not been updated since April 2105, mainly due to the fact that I’ve been so busy with my main job running Ranking Digital Rights (RDR). (I also got married!!) I’ve decided to ...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2016/10/17/ranking-digital-rights-and-new-ted-talk/
Sounds like some kind of weight gain program, doesn’t it? Actually, “Netgain” is a consortium of several philanthropic foundations hoping to support good work that will make the Internet op...
Yesterday I testified at a hearing titled The Evolution of Terrorist Propaganda: The Paris Attack and Social Media convened by the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, N...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2015/01/28/house-hearing-terror-social-media/
At the beginning of every year, literary agent, editor and publisher John Brockman asks his network of authors, scientists, and cross-disciplinary thinkers a big question, then publishes the ans...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2015/01/20/machines-that-think/
16 years ago, four visionaries published the Cluetrain Manifesto, featuring a set of 95 theses about how the Internet has changed markets and relationships. The first thesis, “markets are con...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2015/01/09/cluetrain_newclues/
My commentary published last week in the Financial Times begins: Governments and companies are engaged in a battle to determine who can do what on the internet, and the outcome will reverberate a...
In the latest issue of the World Policy Journal, I write about the absurd “terrorism” trial of Ethiopia’s “Zone 9” bloggers and point out that the crackdown in Ethiopia against online s...
https://consentofthenetworked.com/2014/09/14/world-policy-journal-joining-zone-nine/