Internet of Humans, with Jillian York & Konstantinos Komaitis Konstantinos Komaitis

For this episode, Konstantinos and Jillian talk to Mona Shtaya, the Campaigns and Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Actions.

We discuss with Mona about the way social media platforms are performing in moderating content since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and how their actions have affected, and continue to affect, Palestinian people. We also discuss the challenges Palestinian Internet users are facing regarding infrastructure, connectivity and communication.

This episode was edited by Javier Pallero.

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In this episode, Konstantinos Komaitis and Jillian York talk with Meredith Whittaker,the President of the Signal Foundation. Meredith is also the current Chief Advisor, and the former Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute.

Meredith shares with us the role of Signal in ensuring the privacy and security of communications and her plans for the messaging service. We also discuss the fight for encryption, as pressure to undermine it in jurisdictions across the world is increasing. Finally, we also discuss about AI, its governance and the concerns that have recently manifested by policy makers.

This podcast is edited by Javier Pallero.

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For this episode, Jillian York and Konstantinos Komaitis talk with Thomas Lohninger, the Executive Director of the digital rights NGO, epicenter.works based in Vienna, Austria.

Focusing both on European and international Internet policy, we talk about the highly controversial "fair share" debate, about the nexus between privacy and encryption, digital identity as well as the cybercrime convention.

In the first episode of Season 3 of the Internet of Humans podcast, Jillian and Konstantinos speak with Raegan MacDonald, who has has been a part of the digital rights scene for more than a decade, working with such organizations as Access Now, EDRI and Mozilla. She now serves as the Director of Policy Leadership for Aspiration Tech.

Among others, we discussed the biggest changes and challenges that have happened in the digital rights movement, the real impact of the Brussels effect and what takes to be a leader.

In this episode, Jillian and Konstantinos talk to activist and musician Evan Greer about Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and his first six weeks, content moderation all the way down the "Internet stack", antitrust and surveillance capitalism and punk rock. Evan is an active writer and you can find her body of work through her personal website: https://evangreer.org. Her latest piece on Twitter was for TIME magazine: https://time.com/6228045/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-future/ 

In this episode, Jillian and I talk with Anriette Esterhuysen, former Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and former executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). We discuss a variety of issues, including the future of the Internet Governance Forum, the upcoming World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and what it means for the future of the Internet and the IGF, human rights and the role of civil society in Africa. 

This episode is edited by Javier Pallero.