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The Internet is not a weapon: Cox v Sony
If we want to keep the Internet alive, we need closer collaboration between technical communities and the judicial sector globally.
 • Farzaneh Badiei
Asset-Level AI Signaling: DRM 2.0 the IETF Should Avoid Entirely
In recent months, the debate over how AI systems should interact with online content has intensified.
 • Farzaneh Badiei
The Internet is open! We have to defend it.
The other day I was talking to a dear friend whose job (in my opinion) is literally to keep the Internet open.
 • Farzaneh Badiei
We Need a Satellite Internet Governance, and the ITU Is Not It
There’s growing attention to the fight over who governs satellite internet.
 • Farzaneh Badiei
Standards work
At the moment Digital Medusa works on two standards work streams:
 • Farzaneh Badiei
The Enclosure of the Open Web and the Open Internet Toll booth: What’s Behind Pay-By-Crawl
Cloudflare recently proposed a system where AI companies and crawlers would pay websites for the right to crawl their content, a move framed as “content…
 • Farzaneh Badiei
Infermal and Inferno: Can We Fight DNS Abuse Without Harming Legitimate Users?
A new research report sheds light on malicious domain registration patterns—a valuable step toward tackling DNS abuse.
 • Farzaneh Badiei
DigitalMedusa's Substack
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Digital Medusa is a boutique advisory providing digital governance research and advocacy services. It is the brainchild of Farzaneh Badi[e]i.Digital Medusa’s mission is to provide objective and alternative digital governance narratives.
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