The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

The people building the most powerful artificial intelligence systems are increasingly willing to say something remarkable out loud: they may not know how to control what they are building.

The defining challenge of the AI era is no longer technological—it is political, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

Success should be measured by whether governments stay willing to engage on a technology seen through strategic competition, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

For years, China and Russia argued that the Internet was fundamentally American.Their case rested on a simple proposition: critical parts of the network depended on institutions, companies, and...

When trust dissolves in networked systems, states do what states have always done, writes Konstantinos Komaitis: they seek insulation, redundancy, and control.

The EU’s long-awaited  Tech Sovereignty Package  is not just another EU digital strategy paper but an attempt to redefine Europe’s relationship with technology power, especially after years...

The world is confronting not merely a new technology in AI, but a new operational status quo, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

The  cancellation  of RightsCon 2026 in Lusaka, just days before it was set to begin on May 4th, is more than a logistical disruption. It is a jolt to one of the last truly global spaces where...

AI governance is ultimately a question of democracy itself, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

American cable owners are in the business of business — not geopolitics. But if Trump told them to block the continent from their undersea cables, would they really defy him?

In December 2025, the world crossed a threshold. For the first time ever, access to the major social media platforms was no longer guaranteed by interest, connection, or curiosity — but by a birth …

Connectivity is political, and governance must accept that fact, writes Konstantinos Komaitis. The age of innocence is over, and the age of empires is emerging.

In the AI era, sovereignty is exercised less through territorial control than through infrastructure design, write Eileen Donahoe and Konstantinos Komaitis.

At the  2026 Munich Security Conference , the most explosive revelations weren't found in the predictable headlines regarding tank battalions or NATO budgets, but in the strategic subtext of Ursula...

Across Europe, concern about the online environment is intensifying. Digital platforms are increasingly associated with the spread of disinformation, political polarisation, and social...

Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump

Support us on Patreon » On a recent episode of our other podcast, Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike was joined by guest host Konstantinos Komaitis for a far-reaching discussion about online speech. …

Joint Statement on Internet Shutdowns in the Islamic Republic of Iran February 2026 FOC Documents Download as PDF We, the members of the Freedom Online Coalition, express serious concern regarding […]

Despite frequent references to “modernising the Constitution to include AI,” one critical question remains unasked: what does this actually mean?

How Canada can defend itself from Trump, make billions of dollars, and build a new, global, good internet.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and France’s Marine Le Pen among figures showing support for Hungary’s prime minister

In the midst of Iran’s brutal internet blackout — imposed as nationwide protests surged and authorities cut off connectivity to suppress dissent — a curious actor emerged as both lifeline and...

By walking away, the US is dismantling the mechanism that once turned Western values into a lifeline for those behind a firewall, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

By walking away, the US is dismantling the mechanism that once turned Western values into a lifeline for those behind a firewall, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

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The Timeless Tragedy of Power

Digitalization that ignores a country’s strengths and fails to support the sectors that need it most is ultimately ineffective

China has mastered a marketplace where power does not flow from ideology or from the lofty rhetoric but transactional leverage, Konstantinos Komaitis writes

Artificial intelligence is no longer a concept confined to laboratories or theoretical policy debates. Across the world, nations are investing heavily in AI not only to boost economic growth but also ...

To compete globally, Europe must refine its regulatory model, not dismantle it. Europe is once again flirting with the idea that deregulation is the key to digital competitiveness. Across the...

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...

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...