Talking about digital sovereignty -- this is one area Europe should pay attention to. www.politico.eu/article/us-t... #subseacables #connectivity #Internet #digitalsovereignty

The Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty is rightly concerned - banning children is the easy way out but the repercussion may be detrimental for kids safety and their rights. www.techdirt.com/2025/12/17/w...

New piece: Internet Protocols, Power and the Rebirth of the Border for @techpolicypress.bsky.social The “borderless internet” was never apolitical. www.techpolicy.press/internet-pro... #InternetGovernance #DigitalSovereignty #TechPolicy

“AI #sovereignty” isn’t about building frontier models—it’s about #interoperability. In our new piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with Eileen Donahoe, we argue power runs through the #AI stack. Open standards and portability—not black boxes—preserve real sovereignty. tinyurl.com/3za66f8h

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What Munich Revealed About the New Geography of Tech Power - www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #MunichSecurityConference2026 #TechSovereignty #Geopolitics #DigitalAutonomy #EuropeanTech #TransatlanticRelations #Cybersecurity #StrategicAutonomy #MSC2026

Protecting children online is essential—but how we regulate matters. Europe’s platform debate must safeguard child safety without undermining free speech, anonymity, & democratic resilience. Smart, rights-based regulation is key #DigitalRights #ChildSafety #Democracy www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

We blamed the internet for breaking journalism. Fine. Turns out the real damage comes from tech bros with endless money, zero spine, and a desperate need to stay on the right side of power. #washingtonpost www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I sat down with @masnick.com on the @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy Podcast this week to dig into a nuance often lost in the #AI hype: whether these tools are actually giving us more control or quietly taking it away. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/03/t...

The Freedom Online Coalition issues a joint statement on the Internet shutdown in Iran. freedomonlinecoalition.com/joint-statem... #internetshutdown #Iran

#Greece is about to start a review of its Constitution and it is considering including #AI in it. But, the question that lingers is: what does that really mean? It seems Greece does not have a strategy or a plan -- so here's an attempt to guide the conversation. www.tovima.com/opinions/wha...

If there's one thing you read today, let it be Cory Doctorow's Disenshittification Nation. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Canadian soft power #canada #heaterrivarly #softpower

It was such a pleasure to co-host with @mmasnick.bsky.social the Cyril-Alt-Speech podcast and talk about what’s been going on with the Internet this past week: #TikTok and the US, Europe’s #digitalsovereignty and #Eurostack, the #Grok mess and others! Check it out 👇

It really doesn’t matter that #TikTok is under US ownership. The #censorship is the same as if it were under Chinese ownership, if not more brazen! 👇👇👇👇

Today’s Europe is right-wing, illiberal, fear-driven, and increasingly intolerant. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Though #Stralink providing #connectivity to #Iran is important amidst the Iranian government’s #Internet shutdown, it is also changing the way we should think of communication and information availability. My latest on the new #geopolitics of connectivity. www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

Great analysis of why this is so harmful from @kkomaitis.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/trump-ends-a...

The U.S. just walked away from the Freedom Online Coalition. This "quiet" exit from the FOC signals a massive shift: Internet freedom is no longer a U.S. strategic priority. Washington is vacating the table where the rules of the road are written: www.techpolicy.press/trump-ends-a...

Musk’s Grok, which generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’, is in the Apple Store available to children over the age of 13. The solution to combat CSAM is not to break #encryption; it is to create accountability for the way app stores operate!

Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...

Watching Venezuela today, I can’t help but think of the Melian Dialogue. In 416 BCE, Athens told Melos: “The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must.” Venezuela is a 21st-century Melos. open.substack.com/pub/kkomaiti... #venezuela #sovereignty #sanctions #power #justice

Over the past weeks, Greek farmers have been organizing nationwide demonstrations & blockades in response to delayed subsidy payments and ongoing structural pressures. My latest on how AI could provide some help in modernising the agricultural sector. www.tovima.com/opinions/gre...

Nick Clegg claims technological insight from his tenure at Meta, but he learned little from it. He failed to grasp the need for regulation, never appreciated why big tech must be held accountable, and overlooked the essential role of transparency in technology design.

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social : How China Mastered the Geometry of Tech Power Before Anyone Else - www.techpolicy.press/how-china-ma...

In my latest article for @kathimerini.gr I outline why Greece must strengthen compute capacity, data governance, and national planning to unlock AI’s benefits while safeguarding long-term resilience and competitiveness. www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1288...

Deregulation won’t make Europe competitive — better governance will. Cutting DSA/DMA/GDPR hurts citizens, startups & trust. Europe’s edge is smart rules + strong enforcement, not a race to the bottom. www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #DigitalGovernance #DSA #DMA #GDPR #AIAct #DigitalSovereignty

Europe’s open internet isn’t a relic — it’s the reason startups, AI, and democracy thrive online. Repealing it would hand control to telcos. Keep it open. Keep it fair. Keep it European. #OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #DigitalEurope www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

Is the Internet biased? 🌍 The architecture meant to connect us equally now mirrors old inequalities. Time for the Global South to shape the next Internet. www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #GlobalSouth #InternetGovernance #AI #DigitalInclusion #HumanRights #WSIS20 #DPI #digitaldivide #connectivity

For decades, the internet stood as the clearest expression of globalization’s inevitability. Yet now that vision has begun to fracture. Can the internet reclaim its global spirit, or is this the second act of a network evolving into something more controlled? www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

My latest on the geopolitical veto on the open Internet: open.substack.com/pub/kkomaiti...

After popular demand, I am now on substack. If you prefer to find me there, you may subscribe following this link: kkomaitis.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

A la tribune de l’ONU, tout le monde dénonce la montée de l’autoritarisme… alors que chacun participe à l’industrie de la censure. danslesalgorithmes.net/2025/10/08/d... @kkomaitis.bsky.social

The case for open sovereignty in a fragmenting Internet - oped! www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #digitalsovereignty

The silent coop against Brazil’s Internet: www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

Everybody talks about #datagovernance built no one is willing to actually try to understand what it is. Can we take a step back and be truthful about the complexity of data governance before we make decisions that can be irreversible? Some thoights from yours truly … www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

As the UN General Assembly opens with flags, speeches, and talk of rights and democracy, a quiet coup unfolds — not in parliaments, but in the invisible infrastructure of the internet, writes Konstantinos Komaitis. Digital rights and free expression are under attack — who will defend them?

Freedom of speech isn’t absolute; it exists within society’s rules. Limiting hate speech doesn’t oppose free speech. True free speech has boundaries and consequences, believing you can say anything without repercussions is a misconception, not a sign of a free society. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social The internet is under a quiet coup. Surveillance tech once for dictators is now global, sold to governments. Democracies are complicit, civil society is shrinking. Will we defend an open internet—or let it vanish? www.techpolicy.press/the-internet...

The real Housewives of Silicon Valley @wired.com

The real housewives of authoritarianism!

Italy’s AGCOM just labeled CDNs as telecoms, triggering strict regulation. This risks slower speeds, higher costs, and digital protectionism — threatening the open internet across Europe. A dangerous precedent. Who’s next? #OpenInternet www.komaitis.org/write-share-...

The U.S. is distracted. The EU has tools but without a global strategy, they risk becoming regional outliers. The open internet is a geopolitical asset. It won’t defend itself. Europe must treat digital governance as foreign policy—not a technical footnote. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

Compare the similarities….bearing in mind that one country is meant to be a #democracy and the other is an #authoritarian country!

20 years ago, the WSIS captured lightning in a bottle. Now, with the WSIS+20 review on the horizon, the stakes for global digital governance are higher than ever. DTI’s @kkomaitis.bsky.social calls this a pivotal moment for the internet’s future: bit.ly/4lTlvQL

We see this particularly in the context of Internet governance and the entire Internet freedom agenda: www.techpolicy.press/the-us-just-... @marcacaputo.bsky.social

The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social.

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The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social. The US once linked the governance of cyberspace to the broader project of liberal democracy. That project is now in crisis.