It's been 30 years since John Perry Barlow of @eff published his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - a debated, but in many ways guiding document of the early Internet.

Barlow has since passed, but I think his main thesis can still be realized in spite of the growing surveillance state and corporatization of the Internet.

I wrote about that here:
https://decentproject.org/its-been-30-years-since-barlows-declaration-of-cyber-independence-does-it

#privacy #Internetfreedom #internetpolicy #EFF

The proposed repeal of the Internet Free Speech Law is heading to the US Senate. This law has long protected online expression, and its removal could shift content moderation toward heavier censorship. Supporters and critics alike warn that this could redefine digital speech and government power online.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLH-Uomg2j0

#FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #InternetPolicy

IP Blocking the UK Is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act

https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/06/the-ofcom-files-part-2-ip-blocking-the-uk-is-not-enough-to-comply-with-the-online-safety-act/

#HackerNews #IPBlocking #OnlineSafety #Act #Compliance #Cybersecurity #UK #InternetPolicy

How much EU is in DNS4EU?

https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns4eu/

#HackerNews #DNS4EU #EUtech #InternetPolicy #Cybersecurity #DigitalInfrastructure

Postel's Law and the Three Ring Circus

https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/25/postels-law-and-the-three-ring-circus/

#HackerNews #PostelsLaw #ThreeRingCircus #TechNews #InternetPolicy #Cybersecurity

Mozilla's response to proposed remedies in U.S. vs. Google

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/proposed-remedies-browsers/

#HackerNews #Mozilla #Google #Antitrust #InternetPolicy #BrowserRemedies #TechNews

Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data - Jennifer Holt (The MIT Press, 2024)

#OpenAccess #InternetPolicy #CloudComputing #PublicInfrastructure #USA: "Cloud Policy is a policy history that chronicles how the past century of regulating media infrastructure in the United States has eroded global civil liberties as well as democratic principles and the foundation of the public interest. Jennifer Holt explores the long arc of regulating broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and the data centers that serve as the cloud's storage facilities—an evolution that is connected to the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media and networks, including railroads, highways, telephony, radio, and television. In the process, Cloud Policy unearths the lasting inscriptions of policy written for an analog era and markets that no longer exist on the contemporary governance of digital cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Policy brings together numerous perspectives that have thus far remained largely siloed in their respective fields of law, policy, economics, and media studies. The resulting interdisciplinary argument reveals a properly scaled view of the massive challenge facing policymakers today. Holt also addresses the evolving role of the state in the regulation of global cloud infrastructure and the growing influence of corporate gatekeepers and private sector self-governance. Cloud policy's trajectory, as Holt explains, has enacted a transformation in the cultural valuation of infrastructure as civic good, turning it into a tool of commercial profit generation. Despite these current predicaments, the book's historical lens ultimately helps the reader to envision restorative interventions and new forms of activism to create a more equitable future for infrastructure policy."

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5830/Cloud-PolicyA-History-of-Regulating-Pipelines