Questions tagged [internet]
Questions related to the policies surrounding the internet.
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What incentivizes governments to address problems the public is ignorant about, such as superbacteria or open DNS servers?
Before I started researching politics, I assumed that what incentivizes governments to solve problems is democracy. However, the deeper I dive into politics, it seems to me more and more that's not ...
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Has Cloudflare started filtering Russian traffic due to sanctions? [closed]
Today is 29 of march 2024.
Some sites using Cloudflare as a security or DNS service became blocked.
Can there be political reasons for this blocking?
How do I find out the legal grounds for this or ...
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Has the UK government provided the "minimum standard of privacy and accuracy" that are required of a messaging service for ETEE to be banned?
The Guardian reports that the UK government will not require Ofcom to enforce the restrictions on End to End Encryption (ETEE) until two conditions are met:
the government has said the regulator ...
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Has any government published a cost benefit analysis on KYC regulations in terms of frequency of data loss?
Most countries require people to provide a significant amount of personal data to providers of financial services before you are able to make use of them. This is know as Know Your Customer (KYC) ...
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Political countermeasures for "Web Environment Integrity"
It looks like Google is trying to enable the "Web Environment Integrity" API, which will allow web servers to determine if the browser has been tampered with, e.g., using an ad-blocker or ...
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How exactly could a TikTok ban be enforced?
Let's say TikTok is banned tomorrow by Congress. How would they be able to actually enforce the ban, assuming TikTok refused to cooperate?
They could definitely convince Apple and Google to remove it ...
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How could SpaceX prevent military use of their satellites while preserving free speech absolutism?
According to Western media, citing Russian officials, Russia has somewhat transparently threatened to attack SpaceX satellites.
September 19, 2022
A Russian representative named Konstantin Vorontsov ...
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What is the legal status of [A Declaration for the Future of the Internet]?
On the State.Gov website, the 3 page document called [A Declaration for the Future of the Internet] can be found, and a number of countries are listed at the bottom who supposedly are participating in ...
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"Make the net neutral again" Has the Biden administration successfully restored US internet neutrality? Safeguards in place to keep it that way?
Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (2017 to 2021) Ajit Pai had been outspoken against net neutrality since at least 2014 and once head of the FCC worked to undo it: Net ...
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Has there been a cost-benefit analysis of what would happen if the Russian Federation were to be disconnected from the Internet?
A number of the Russian industries have been cut off from being able to engage with the outside world as a result of sanctions imposed in response to Russian Federation's war of aggression against ...
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Any (legal or otherwise) reasons why the US did not expect to be targeted by foreign propaganda over Internet? [closed]
When the Internet came to be and brought people from different parts of the world together, two things were apparent. That people will be exposed to propaganda/opinions prevalent in other countries, ...
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Sanctions against Russia and Internet subscriptions [closed]
Sanctions against Russia become heavier by the day, and an answer to that question might not fit the situation in a few weeks. Please consider the situation as of today.
Say a website located in the ...
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Has Google removed RT.com from web searches (in the EU)? [closed]
If I search (from an EU IP) seemingly for anything on Google with the site:rt.com restriction, I get no results, but funny pages like "476 results removed".
Did Google announce removing RT ...
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Can Russia be cut off from the internet? [closed]
A great variety of sanctions have been discussed and implemented with more to follow.
One sanction I have never heard being discussed, and that is cutting off Russia from the internet.
Now I am aware ...
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Do export sanctions prevent web services or websites?
If the United States has economic sanctions against Russia, does this prevent American companies from serving websites to users in Russia? Will Google, Youtube, etc., have to be made inaccessible in ...
