Konstantinos Komaitis PhD
@kkomaitis.bsky.social
Snr. Resident Fellow Global Governance & Democracy @Atlantic Council; ex @NYTimes; ex snr dir. @internetsociety; ex law @lawstrath. Internet of Humans podcast. I own my views
Europe’s open internet isn’t a relic — it’s the reason startups, AI, and democracy thrive online. Repealing it would hand control to telcos. Keep it open. Keep it fair. Keep it European.
#OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #DigitalEurope
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#OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #DigitalEurope
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Europe’s Open Internet: The Foundation of Digital Sovereignty
Why keeping Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 intact is essential for innovation, competition, and citizens’ rights. Imagine it’s the year 2030, and you wake up in your mid-sized European city to the...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Europe’s open internet isn’t a relic — it’s the reason startups, AI, and democracy thrive online. Repealing it would hand control to telcos. Keep it open. Keep it fair. Keep it European.
#OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #DigitalEurope
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#OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #DigitalEurope
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Is the Internet biased? 🌍 The architecture meant to connect us equally now mirrors old inequalities. Time for the Global South to shape the next Internet. www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #GlobalSouth #InternetGovernance #AI #DigitalInclusion #HumanRights #WSIS20 #DPI #digitaldivide #connectivity
Is the Internet Biased?
In 1869, when the first transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States, newspapers declared it a triumph of progress — a steel ribbon that would bind a vast nation together. Yet...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Is the Internet biased? 🌍 The architecture meant to connect us equally now mirrors old inequalities. Time for the Global South to shape the next Internet. www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #GlobalSouth #InternetGovernance #AI #DigitalInclusion #HumanRights #WSIS20 #DPI #digitaldivide #connectivity
For decades, the internet stood as the clearest expression of globalization’s inevitability. Yet now that vision has begun to fracture.
Can the internet reclaim its global spirit, or is this the second act of a network evolving into something more controlled? www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
Can the internet reclaim its global spirit, or is this the second act of a network evolving into something more controlled? www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
Internet Realities: Globalization, Fragmentation, and the Future of a Connected World
For decades, the internet has stood as the clearest expression of globalization’s inevitability. A “network of networks,” stretching across borders and built on protocols that cared little for...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For decades, the internet stood as the clearest expression of globalization’s inevitability. Yet now that vision has begun to fracture.
Can the internet reclaim its global spirit, or is this the second act of a network evolving into something more controlled? www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
Can the internet reclaim its global spirit, or is this the second act of a network evolving into something more controlled? www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
My latest on the geopolitical veto on the open Internet: open.substack.com/pub/kkomaiti...
The Geopolitical Veto: The Rise of the Concert of Networks
How Multipolar Power Is Dismantling the Open Internet and Replacing It with Competing Digital Sovereignties
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October 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My latest on the geopolitical veto on the open Internet: open.substack.com/pub/kkomaiti...
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A la tribune de l’ONU, tout le monde dénonce la montée de l’autoritarisme… alors que chacun participe à l’industrie de la censure. danslesalgorithmes.net/2025/10/08/d... @kkomaitis.bsky.social
De l’internet de la répression…
A New York, lAssemblée générale des Nations Unies a ouvert sa quatre-vingtième session. « Le podium de marbre, les drapeaux, les discours ...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
A la tribune de l’ONU, tout le monde dénonce la montée de l’autoritarisme… alors que chacun participe à l’industrie de la censure. danslesalgorithmes.net/2025/10/08/d... @kkomaitis.bsky.social
The case for open sovereignty in a fragmenting Internet - oped! www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #digitalsovereignty
The Case for Open Sovereignty in a Fragmenting Internet
Once, the Internet promised to dissolve borders. It was humanity’s great experiment in connection — a place where ideas, innovation, and communities could move freely, unburdened by geography or...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The case for open sovereignty in a fragmenting Internet - oped! www.komaitis.org/write-share-... #digitalsovereignty
The silent coop against Brazil’s Internet: www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
The Silent Coup Against Brazil’s Internet
Last week, I was in Brazil and had the chance to engage directly with CGI.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee) and the broad community of stakeholders it brings together. The energy,...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The silent coop against Brazil’s Internet: www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
Everybody talks about #datagovernance built no one is willing to actually try to understand what it is. Can we take a step back and be truthful about the complexity of data governance before we make decisions that can be irreversible? Some thoights from yours truly … www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
The Unknowns, Geopolitics, and Vagueness Around Data Governance
Lately, all I hear is talk about data governance, as if the act of discussing it will automatically create clarity, rather than forcing us to confront the hard choices about how data flows, who...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Everybody talks about #datagovernance built no one is willing to actually try to understand what it is. Can we take a step back and be truthful about the complexity of data governance before we make decisions that can be irreversible? Some thoights from yours truly … www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
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As the UN General Assembly opens with flags, speeches, and talk of rights and democracy, a quiet coup unfolds — not in parliaments, but in the invisible infrastructure of the internet, writes Konstantinos Komaitis. Digital rights and free expression are under attack — who will defend them?
The Internet Coup Is Here. And the World Is Still Asleep | TechPolicy.Press
At UNGA 80, the world’s leaders have a chance to prove that they understand what is at stake, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
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September 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As the UN General Assembly opens with flags, speeches, and talk of rights and democracy, a quiet coup unfolds — not in parliaments, but in the invisible infrastructure of the internet, writes Konstantinos Komaitis. Digital rights and free expression are under attack — who will defend them?
Freedom of speech isn’t absolute; it exists within society’s rules. Limiting hate speech doesn’t oppose free speech. True free speech has boundaries and consequences, believing you can say anything without repercussions is a misconception, not a sign of a free society.
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How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
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September 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Freedom of speech isn’t absolute; it exists within society’s rules. Limiting hate speech doesn’t oppose free speech. True free speech has boundaries and consequences, believing you can say anything without repercussions is a misconception, not a sign of a free society.
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My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social The internet is under a quiet coup. Surveillance tech once for dictators is now global, sold to governments. Democracies are complicit, civil society is shrinking. Will we defend an open internet—or let it vanish?
www.techpolicy.press/the-internet...
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The Internet Coup Is Here. And the World Is Still Asleep | TechPolicy.Press
At UNGA 80, the world’s leaders have a chance to prove that they understand what is at stake, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
www.techpolicy.press
September 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social The internet is under a quiet coup. Surveillance tech once for dictators is now global, sold to governments. Democracies are complicit, civil society is shrinking. Will we defend an open internet—or let it vanish?
www.techpolicy.press/the-internet...
www.techpolicy.press/the-internet...
The real Housewives of Silicon Valley @wired.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The real Housewives of Silicon Valley @wired.com
The real housewives of authoritarianism!
September 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The real housewives of authoritarianism!
Italy’s AGCOM just labeled CDNs as telecoms, triggering strict regulation. This risks slower speeds, higher costs, and digital protectionism — threatening the open internet across Europe. A dangerous precedent.
Who’s next? #OpenInternet
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Who’s next? #OpenInternet
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Italy’s CDN Coup: Telecoms Hijacking the Open Internet
In a controversial move that could reverberate across Europe, Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM has decided to bring Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) under the scope of the European...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Italy’s AGCOM just labeled CDNs as telecoms, triggering strict regulation. This risks slower speeds, higher costs, and digital protectionism — threatening the open internet across Europe. A dangerous precedent.
Who’s next? #OpenInternet
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Who’s next? #OpenInternet
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The U.S. is distracted. The EU has tools but without a global strategy, they risk becoming regional outliers. The open internet is a geopolitical asset. It won’t defend itself.
Europe must treat digital governance as foreign policy—not a technical footnote.
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Europe must treat digital governance as foreign policy—not a technical footnote.
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As the US retreats from internet governance, Europe must step up
If Europeans do not actively defend their digital rights model abroad, then they risk seeing the global system drift toward norms that contradict their own.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
August 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The U.S. is distracted. The EU has tools but without a global strategy, they risk becoming regional outliers. The open internet is a geopolitical asset. It won’t defend itself.
Europe must treat digital governance as foreign policy—not a technical footnote.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
Europe must treat digital governance as foreign policy—not a technical footnote.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
Compare the similarities….bearing in mind that one country is meant to be a #democracy and the other is an #authoritarian country!
August 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Compare the similarities….bearing in mind that one country is meant to be a #democracy and the other is an #authoritarian country!
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20 years ago, the WSIS captured lightning in a bottle. Now, with the WSIS+20 review on the horizon, the stakes for global digital governance are higher than ever.
DTI’s @kkomaitis.bsky.social calls this a pivotal moment for the internet’s future: bit.ly/4lTlvQL
DTI’s @kkomaitis.bsky.social calls this a pivotal moment for the internet’s future: bit.ly/4lTlvQL
'The multistakeholder model is the engine that powers the internet' —Konstantinos Komaitis on WSIS+20
A statement from Konstantinos Komaitis on the WSIS+20 process and the future of digital governance.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
20 years ago, the WSIS captured lightning in a bottle. Now, with the WSIS+20 review on the horizon, the stakes for global digital governance are higher than ever.
DTI’s @kkomaitis.bsky.social calls this a pivotal moment for the internet’s future: bit.ly/4lTlvQL
DTI’s @kkomaitis.bsky.social calls this a pivotal moment for the internet’s future: bit.ly/4lTlvQL
We see this particularly in the context of Internet governance and the entire Internet freedom agenda: www.techpolicy.press/the-us-just-...
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July 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We see this particularly in the context of Internet governance and the entire Internet freedom agenda: www.techpolicy.press/the-us-just-...
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The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social.
The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom | TechPolicy.Press
The retreat of the United States from the digital rights arena creates a vacuum that authoritarian states are eager to occupy, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
www.techpolicy.press
July 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social.
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The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social. The US once linked the governance of cyberspace to the broader project of liberal democracy. That project is now in crisis.
The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom | TechPolicy.Press
The retreat of the United States from the digital rights arena creates a vacuum that authoritarian states are eager to occupy, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
techpolicy.press
July 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My latest....👇👇👇👇👇
Reposted by Konstantinos Komaitis PhD
The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social. The US once linked the governance of cyberspace to the broader project of liberal democracy. That project is now in crisis.
The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom | TechPolicy.Press
The retreat of the United States from the digital rights arena creates a vacuum that authoritarian states are eager to occupy, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
techpolicy.press
July 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The retreat of the US from the Internet freedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, writes @kkomaitis.bsky.social. The US once linked the governance of cyberspace to the broader project of liberal democracy. That project is now in crisis.
Muddling Through Uncertain Waters: Why the UN’s Troubles Could Spell Trouble for the Internet: www.techpolicy.press/muddling-thr...
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@techpolicypress.bsky.social #Internet
Muddling Through Uncertain Waters: Why the UN’s Troubles Could Spell Trouble for the Internet | TechPolicy.Press
Disengaging from the UN is shortsighted and problematic, as it enables authoritarian regimes to shape global digital governance, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
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July 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Muddling Through Uncertain Waters: Why the UN’s Troubles Could Spell Trouble for the Internet: www.techpolicy.press/muddling-thr...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social #Internet
@techpolicypress.bsky.social #Internet