Platform responsibility? Get the backstory - check my book The Closing of the Net - only £15.99!
I was cited in CNN Wire on 9 September 2018: "Attitudes to free speech are changing, and Steve Bannon has something to do with it"
"Laws around the world have not kept up with this major change in the way we communicate, according to Monica Horten, an expert on internet governance policy. At the heart of the problem is scale."
"The whole question arises of whether private actors should be able to make these kinds of decisions -- governments are asking private companies that run these platforms to make decisions about which contentshould be removed -- they are acting as censors and not always within the law"
"original and valuable" Times higher Education
" essential read for anyone interested in understanding the forces at play behind the web." ITSecurity.co.uk
Find out more about the book here The Closing of the Net
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In 2012, I presented my PhD research in the European Parliament.
Iptegrity.com is the website of Dr Monica Horten. She is a policy analyst specialising in Internet governance & European policy, including platform accountability. She is a published author & Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She served as an independent expert on the Council of Europe Committee on Internet Freedom. She has worked on CoE, EU and UNDP funded projects in eastern Europe and the Caucasus. In a voluntary capacity, she has led UK citizen delegations to the European Parliament. She was shortlisted for The Guardian Open Internet Poll 2012.
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