Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Regulate Tech #7: Privacy - The Fundamentals
Regulate Tech
Between them, Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad have over 50 years of experience in internet technology policy. And they still love talking about it. In this podcast, they dig into major technology policy questions before policy makers, teasing out the trade-offs they have to consider. They reflect on their own experiences from both sides of the business and politics divide. Some episodes are aimed at technology policy professionals as Richard and Nicklas share what they have learnt along the way. They believe there is public value in services having effective policy teams and want to help these develop, grow and, well, make new mistakes...
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Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
In this week's episode we discuss the evolution away from a global Internet into several smaller splinternets. How large are they likely to be? What does this mean for the large platforms? Was there ever a global Internet to begin with? And will technology ultimately resist the re-territorialization we are seeing today with digital sovereignty and data localization?
Saturday Feb 13, 2021
Saturday Feb 13, 2021
Should platforms become the arbiters of truth? Should we as a society require that they uphold a shared baseline of facts and ensure that doubting historical and scientific truths is much harder than it is today? What about lying - should that really be allowed online? In this episode the subject is truth and we discuss if the long arc of platform history bends towards institutional knowledge.
Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
In this episode we discuss news, journalism and the tension between preserving the democratic institution of journalism and propping up news business models that are not working. We also discuss the role public service has to play, the dynamics of the debate and future solutions.
Participants: Richard Allan / Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
In this episode the subject is how platforms and society deal with nudity - and what that says about content regulation generally. Nipples, artistic nudity, documentary photos of nudity, contexts and more than anything the wider question of what kinds of harm we are looking to prevent and how those harms are becoming more and more abstract and general with time are some of the issues we discuss in this week's episode. Send us thoughts and ideas!
Participants: Richard Allan / Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
In this episode we discuss the Arab Spring and how it evolved, how the Internet played a role and what role it really played as well as how the Arab Spring might have unfolded today if it had happened now.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
In this episode we discuss the responsibility of platforms in the larger perspective of what we should expect in the coming years, how the public sphere can be upheld and what laws are coming.
A podcast about tech, policy and the future
Are you interested in learning more about the craft of tech policy? Dig deep in the classics? Figure out what the future for tech holds? Then this is the podcast for you. Conversations between two long-time policy professionsals with 50+ years of shared experience from tech policy in companies, trade associations and academia.