Encryption and Feminism: Reimagining Child Safety Without Surveillance
Internet Exchange is bringing the conversation about encryption, feminism, and reimagining child safety without surveillance to MozFest.
author: Audrey Hingle
What We Learned About Publishing on the Open Social Web
Over two years, we’ve grown alongside the open social web, experimenting with Ghost, ActivityPub, and Bluesky to publish in ways that align with our values.
The UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom’s Age Checks Raise Concerns
New UK rules require “highly effective” age checks for adult content online, but the proposed methods risk undermining privacy, excluding vulnerable users, and expanding surveillance infrastructure.
If It Breaks Wikipedia, It’s Probably Bad Policy
One Simple Test to Try Before Regulating the Internet.
The UK Struggles to Balance AI Innovation and Creative Protection
The UK, a global hub for both AI and the arts, struggles to balance tech innovation and protecting a creative sector increasingly threatened by AI trained on copyrighted works.
Rethinking Robots: Why Visual Representation of AI Matters
The images we use to depict AI, from robots, to blue brains and cascading code, are more than just clichés. They shape public understanding, feed myths and undermine meaningful engagement. Better Images of AI is working to change that.
Building an Open Prosocial Web
What if online platforms were designed to strengthen our social fabric? This week, in our main story, Audrey Tang—Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, first Digital Minister, and a pioneer of civic tech—and IX’s Audrey Hingle explore how federated platforms can prioritize social cohesion.
But first...
Introducing “The Stack”