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Newish edited volume: Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?

Posted on August 5, 2021 by bhaggart

(finally getting around to noting my recent publications) My edited volume (co-edited with Natasha Tusikov and Jan Aart Scholte) is now out, via Routledge. It focuses on the question of the state role in internet regulation from three perspectives: global … Continue reading →

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Once more, with feeling: Facebook’s new Oversight Board continues to be an attempted end-run around actual regulation

Posted on May 7, 2020 by bhaggart

Of course it will be a “reputational shield,” as The Guardian puts it. That’s the whole point of these types of exercise. So long as Facebook makes the rules, it holds all the cards that matter. Global platform governance is … Continue reading →

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