‘Best Interests of the Child’ Paradox: The Social Media Ban Debate in the UK
The UK’s current approach, including the rollout of the Online Safety Act, is still failing to end the widespread harms facing young people online.
Audrey Hingle
Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries
Publisher content is being scraped at scale for AI training and services without clear consent, attribution, or compensation, while also degrading site performance and diverting engineering resources away from human users.
Community Networks: Critical Infrastructure For Rural Connectivity In India
As India goes digital-first, millions remain offline. Locally run networks show how connectivity can be built where markets fall short.
What Do We Want? To Stop Using Google Docs.
When do we want it?
TBH, it's complicated.
Censorship Should Be Obsolete by Now. Why Isn’t It?
Internet censorship is accelerating worldwide, driven by governance choices, corporate power, and governments invoking digital sovereignty to justify tighter control.
6G Hype, Hard Questions: Why The Next “G” Demands Caution, Not Acceleration
The real risk of 6G is not that it will arrive too late, but that it will arrive too fast—before we have agreed on what problem it is meant to solve, and for whom.
Our 5 Most-Read Articles of 2025
From digital sovereignty to encryption and online safety. A look back at the pieces readers engaged with most this year.