Farzaneh Badiei, PhD’s Post

I am very cynical today, forgive me. But all my LinkedIn page is full of digital sovereignty news, a concept that doesn't matter how much money you spend on cannot be detangled from power, control and it cannot give individuals magical autonomy, we have slashed all the funding from Internet freedom and allocated it to sovereignty (it has been so popular that big tech is now selling sovereignty as a service, did they ever do that for the global Internet? global, free Internet as a service???) We have banned children under 16 from social media in Australia (how my heart aches when I think about children in refugee camps and other vulnerable groups). We are killing the Internet and affecting the Internet users with copyright overreach because we do not think about the individual users and their needs and how they are affected, we just want to blindly punish AI companies, regardless of how people are affected and how users are affected. We still have copyrighters going after ISPs. Oh by the way US and EU want to support Internet freedom in Iran. Yay. But I still repost this good news as Vini did. Because I am not going to give up on the open, free and global Internet. Especially on a dark day likes this. On a day when people got their dreams shattered and were pulled out of their oath ceremony because of their place of birth. On a day when sovereignty shows its vicious face.