Tuning in now to @HKULaw/ @GeorgetownLaw's joint conference on "Data Sovereignty along the Digital Silk Road": the great @FrankPasquale demonstrates in his keynote how tech platforms are using the narrative of civil rights to challenge state regulations

Now @AnupamChander with his talk "Is the Internet a Western Idea? Decolonizing the Internet" presenting statements about the joint US-European attempts to dominate tech business and regulation

. @AnupamChander now critiquing the idea that a "western internet" is one that is not under centralized control by discussing Minitel, "walled gardens" like AOL, and the Apple app store, and critiquing notions a western internet is surveillance free by noting Snowden's revelations

Is free expression a "western" internet value? @AnupamChander discusses different standards of freedom of speech within the west and US as well as US immigration demands to review social media of inbound travelers

Interesting map of which countries are deemed "adequate" for data transfer purposes under the GDPR - anglophone North America, Japan, New Zealand, and Argentina/Uruguay

Thomas Streinz makes the interesting point that the internet is discussed in terms of having an "authoritarianism problem" but internet governance can be rendered by inscrutable global institutions which have a "democracy problem"