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Digital sovereignty

Digital Sovereignty is empty, but not boundless

Samuel Wilbanks Ugwumba, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2026

Digital sovereignty is vague, or even fragmented, but that is not a defect to be disciplined.

Child Sexual Abuse Regulation

Chat control proposes one law for two problems

Vera K. Wilde, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

PUBLISHED ON: 7 Sep 2026

The EU’s Chat Control proposal conflates two fundamentally different problems; the law should separate two forms of detection and require a credible validation plan before novel-material detection is deployed.

Social media ban

We are giving Big Tech what they want: the strategic blunder of under-16 social media bans

Estelle Clements, Independent researcher

PUBLISHED ON: 1 Sep 2026

Under-16 social media bans may seem like a reasonable response that forestalls consequences, but, in ways we have yet to appreciate, they may prove a strategic blunder, serving the best interests of the very tech companies they seek to counter.

Digital sovereignty

Data embassies: The new face of sovereignty washing?

Nighat Nighat, Aapti Institute

PUBLISHED ON: 27 Aug 2026

As the Gulf war pushes data embassies into the mainstream, the Global South risks importing a familiar pattern of dependencies repackaged as sovereignty.

Child protection

Regulation is working. That might be the problem

Ayşe Elif Posos Devrani, Turkish-German University

PUBLISHED ON: 27 Jul 2026

Regulation is moving platforms. But is it moving them in ways that actually protect children? A two-year comparison of regulatory monitoring data suggests the answer is more complicated than it looks.

Procurement

Is procurement the missing piece of the digital sovereignty puzzle?

Nighat Nighat, Aapti Institute
Vaishnavi Patil, Aapti Institute

PUBLISHED ON: 1 Jul 2026

The next frontier of South-South cooperation may not be trade agreements or diplomatic summits; instead, it may be what governments choose to buy, and on whose terms.

internet fragmentation

The internet is breaking up – and Europe is the only bloc that knows what to do about it

John Kendall Hawkins, University of San Diego

PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2026

Europe has built the most sophisticated democratic response to internet fragmentation and is now dismantling it under pressure from the platforms it was designed to constrain.

Artificial intelligence

The AI Gigafactory or: Ηow the EU learned to stop worrying and love the hyperscaler

Charis Papaevangelou, University of Amsterdam
Plixavra Vogiatzoglou, University of Amsterdam

PUBLISHED ON: 11 Jun 2026

This opinion piece critically examines the EU’s strategy to build AI infrastructure through the announced AI Gigafactories as alternatives to hyperscalers and leading means to strengthen its digital sovereignty.

Data centres

The earthly limits of data centre resistance

Quito Tsui, Stanford University
Aaron Martin, University of Virginia

PUBLISHED ON: 10 Jun 2026

Whether or not data centres make it to space, the possibility itself exposes the limitations of resistance hinged only on proximate material experience, thus beckoning a wider and deeper movement.

Agent skills

When workers become ‘skills’: Governance gaps in AI systems

Jiahuan Qian, Zhejiang University
Lizhi (Kerry) Yu, Central South University

PUBLISHED ON: 21 May 2026

As human knowledge becomes reusable “agent skills,” existing governance frameworks may no longer be sufficient to address questions of ownership, rights of use, benefit distribution, and accountability.

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Internet Policy Review is an open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.

Scholars, regulators, journalists, activists, and other stakeholders publish in the journal in

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