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The Brussels Effect and the Search of a Citizen’s Internet

The Brussels Effect and the Search of a Citizen’s Internet Illustration by Hertie School: Centre for Digital Governance The Brussels Effect is an interesting concept, coined by Ana Bradford in 2012, a Finnish-American professor at the Columbia Law School. Bradford’s attempt has a bifold aim: on the one hand, to create an accessible narrative to …

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And Suddenly They Wanted to be Regulated

And Suddenly They Wanted to be Regulated Big tech is watching you. Who’s watching the big tech? “EU rejects Facebook’s proposal for online regulation” reads the headline of a Financial Times piece[1], published shortly after Facebook’s CEO meeting with EU executives in Brussels on February 17. In recent years, and especially after the sweeping GDPR …

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