Tagged “writing”
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A Real Digital Omnibus for European Competitiveness and Security
Our report on the data provisions of the Digital Omnibus: a framework for trilogue negotiators to tell the provisions that genuinely simplify from those that would undermine the trusted environment European competitiveness depends on.
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Media Media
The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn’t be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.
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The Retweeting Class
I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today. Here, I try to understand what grounds their epistemology and its consequences, and what that means for the rest of us. Being committed to a better future is where genuine seriousness is, and that seriousness can only be approached in a spirit of embodied, determined, relentless hope.
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« La souveraineté numérique se construit par étapes, et si les institutions ne bougent pas, le public ne bougera pas »
In Le Monde, Nicolas Hénin and I argue that the French state’s satirical X account, French Response, is a tactical answer to a strategic problem, and that institutions should invest in healthy, well-governed platforms so that the public follows.
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Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant
Our report on the search/browser levy — the little-known system that funds browsers, enforces a search monopoly, and defunds the rest of the web — and how to reform it.
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The Direction of Interoperability
Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it’s right within reach.
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Fascintern Media
We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet people who claim to side with democracy keep doing work to support Fascintern media because they misunderstand how it works. This needs to change.
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How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need?
In Project Syndicate: the AWS and Azure outages show the threat US cloud dominance poses to Europe, and why the EU must dismantle the entrenched monopolies undermining its tech sovereignty.
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How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising
How principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.
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Airbus for AI: A Global Strategy for Public Value Creation
With Joshua Tan, Brandon Jackson, and Diane Coyle, a policy brief for a Public AI Company: an Airbus-style partnership among middle powers to build frontier AI in the public interest.
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Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
In POLITICO Europe, Cori Crider and I argue that the Commission has the tools, public support, and mandate to act on Big Tech, and that trading them away in US trade talks would be a costly mistake.
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'Rewilding' To Feature in 'Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025'
Our ‘We Need To Rewild The Internet’ essay, with Maria Farrell, has been selected to be included in the ‘Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025’ anthology.
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Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the “s-word.” It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the “splinternet.” It doesn’t have to be this way!
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Social Media as It Should Be
In Project Syndicate: how the Bluesky model — public protocols rather than private platforms — could restore the original promise of the internet.
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#EuroStack: European Strategic Sovereign Digital Infrastructures
The EuroStack pitch document: why Europe must join and build its own digital infrastructures, from chips to data to compute to connectivity, and how to start.
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The Struggle Over Digital Infrastructure
We need to radically strengthen the transnational nature of multistakeholder digital infrastructure governance.
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“Google is a Monopolist” – Wrong and Right Ways to Think About Remedies
What potential remedies now stand a chance of establishing competition in search? Cristina Caffarra and Robin Berjon consider the question.
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