In this episode we examine the often somewhat fuzzy distinction between open and closed systems and platforms, and discuss if there are better ways to think about this. We also suggest that maybe we should pay more attention to the distinction between centralized and de-centralized solutions. 

Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad

The first copyright episode! We discuss the old copyright wars and the coming ones, as well as the benefits of Creative Commons. What was all the fuss about? And why did copyright fade as the unquestioned number one policy issue in tech policy? 

Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad

So, we are 8 episodes in and it felt about right to take a step back and say hi and introduce ourselves, explain how we ended up being interested in tech policy and why Richard was dissuaded from becoming Indiana Jones and ended up an Italian psychologist pirate. Listen in if also if you want to hear a bit about how tech companies started out thinking about policy and what the early days were like! 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this session we discuss the history and future of privacy, fundamental concepts and ideas about data as well as the question of if we will see more or less personal data online in the future. Listen in! 

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? 

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

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

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

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

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.