If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a non-profit are coming together in the hope of devising what they call a governance infrastructure of the internet – via something called Applied Social Media Lab (ASML). For those wondering, who even asked for the internet to receive a “governance infrastructure” and what it’s goals and results are supposed to be?, some hints as to the answer to that question can be found in the fact this above all concerns Big Tech and its platforms (i.e., the highly influential segments of the internet), and then, there’s the issue of who’s bankrolling the effort. Namely, Harvard’s new lab is possible thanks to a donation from Project Liberty. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society has received money from government entities, and has in the past counted the US State Department (and the USAID agency) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) among the donors, as well as the likes of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Omidyar Network, and corporations ranging from Google and Reuters to AT&T. And this is not an attempt isolated to one university: Project Liberty is involved in establishing similar outfits in other universities such as Stanford and Georgetown. Billionaire Frank McCourt, who made his money in various sports franchises both in the US and Europe, is, judging by his statements made late last year, now spending most of…Harvard Research Group That Has Received Government Funding, To Study “Governance Infrastructure” of the Internet

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a non-profit are coming together in the hope of devising what they call a governance infrastructure of the internet – via something called Applied Social Media Lab (ASML). For those wondering, who even asked for the internet to receive a “governance infrastructure” and what it’s goals and results are supposed to be?, some hints as to the answer to that question can be found in the fact this above all concerns Big Tech and its platforms (i.e., the highly influential segments of the internet), and then, there’s the issue of who’s bankrolling the effort. Namely, Harvard’s new lab is possible thanks to a donation from Project Liberty. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society has received money from government entities, and has in the past counted the US State Department (and the USAID agency) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) among the donors, as well as the likes of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Omidyar Network, and corporations ranging from Google and Reuters to AT&T. And this is not an attempt isolated to one university: Project Liberty is involved in establishing similar outfits in other universities such as Stanford and Georgetown. Billionaire Frank McCourt, who made his money in various sports franchises both in the US and Europe, is, judging by his statements made late last year, now spending most of…Harvard Research Group That Has Received Government Funding, To Study “Governance Infrastructure” of the Internet