John Morris – Internet Society https://www.internetsociety.org We are a global charitable organization empowering people to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Mon, 06 May 2024 20:49:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-ISOC-Symbol-Ground-navy-690px-1-32x32.jpg John Morris – Internet Society https://www.internetsociety.org 32 32 Montana’s TikTok Ban: Breaking the Internet and Undermining Online Privacy  https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/05/montanas-tiktok-ban-breaking-the-internet-and-undermining-online-privacy/ Mon, 06 May 2024 20:35:54 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=210014 a photo of a field with mountains in the background in Montana

Asking TikTok, Google, and Apple to more intrusively track nearly every American with a cell phone, based on the possibility that a TikTok user might enter Montana, would be a significant invasion of privacy. And yet that is the likely outcome if Montana’s law SB 419 is allowed to take effect.  A law that claims […]

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The US FCC Signals a Dangerous New Course on BGP Security https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/04/the-us-fcc-signals-a-dangerous-new-course-on-bgp-security/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:28:25 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=209527 Wires connecting to each other in a web

The US Federal Communications Commission recently released a draft Declaratory Ruling and Order in the Open Internet Proceeding. However, there is concerning language (paragraph 46) in this ruling that strongly implies the FCC’s intention to regulate border gateway protocol (BGP) routing security. While the FCC’s motives may be well-intentioned, regulating BGP routing security could have […]

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Can You Kick the Trolls Out Of Your Online Forum? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2023/12/can-you-kick-the-trolls-out-of-your-online-forum-u-s-supreme-court-to-decide/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:09:58 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=205096 Photo of the US Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC

Should the governments of Texas and Florida decide whether and how online discussion sites can moderate their posts? Let’s say you have an online community about the town you live in, and someone starts posting off-topic messages about some other town or city, should you be able to remove those messages? Or if you have […]

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Two Things the US Should Do to Protect the Internet and the Security of Billions of People Online https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/11/two-things-the-us-should-do-to-protect-the-internet-and-the-security-of-billions-of-people-online/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:48:45 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=180841 a black silhouette of a surveillance camera on a white background

Adopting the practice of Internet impact assessments is not just an option—it’s a must to protect the Internet we want today and tomorrow.

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