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Essays, notes, and policy reflections on digital rights, AI governance, platform accountability, and public-interest technology.
Public-Interest Technology
From Content Moderation to Civic Risk Intelligence
Content moderation treats online harm as a platform enforcement problem. Civic risk intelligence treats it as a governance problem.
9 min read
Platform Accountability
Why Platform Accountability Fails in Fragile Democracies
The institutions that must pressure platforms are often weak, captured, under-resourced, or themselves complicit in digital repression.
10 min read
AI Governance
The Case for Contextual AI Auditing in South Asia
AI auditing cannot be universal if the harms are contextual. South Asia needs auditing methods that account for language and political context.
10 min read
Digital Rights
Internet Shutdowns Are Bad Governance Disguised as Security
Shutdowns are often justified as security measures. In practice, they are admissions of governance failure.
7 min read
Platform Accountability
The DSA Is the Best Experiment We Have, But Transparency Is Not Accountability
The DSA will fail its democratic promise if transparency becomes the ceiling rather than the floor.
9 min read
Digital Rights
The UK Online Safety Act: Safety Without Due Process Can Become Private Censorship Infrastructure
Its long-term legitimacy depends on whether safety duties are matched by due process and safeguards against over-removal.
8 min read
Digital Rights
Pakistan's PECA 2025 Problem
When fake-news law becomes state capacity for silence.
8 min read
AI Governance
The Global Digital Compact Has the Right Vocabulary. It Still Needs Teeth.
Principles are easier to sign than to enforce. The next stage must be institutional.
8 min read
AI Governance
Human-in-the-Loop Risk Scoring Is Not a Feature. It Is a Governance Position.
The system supports judgment. It does not replace responsibility.
9 min read
AI Governance
AI Incident Governance Needs a Memory, Not Another Set of Principles
What AI governance lacks is institutional memory: shared incident records, severity thresholds, and learning loops.
9 min read