Blockchain and cryptocurrencies: Prospects for African trade (1)
In its simplest form, blockchain is a new database architecture. Its major distinction is decentralization. As opposed to having databases...
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In its simplest form, blockchain is a new database architecture. Its major distinction is decentralization. As opposed to having databases...
Perhaps foremost in this regard is Bellingcat, which according to its website, regards itself as “an independent international collective of...
Internet governance scholar Laura DeNardis devotes a chapter to the oxymoronic nature of “internet freedom” in her 2020 book “The...
Internet platforms have numerous backroom deals with governments on terms that are glaringly at variance with their public face of...
According to Deibert (2020), the different approaches being explored for regulating social media at the moment are viz. (1) Fact-checking,...
India has set new rules for internet platforms. And Twitter is complying. Thus, when requests that meet the legal parameters...
In early July 2021, former American president Donald Trumpfiled class action lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook and Google over the censorship...
A recent South African case shows why regulation is important and a better approach than arbitrary and knee-jerk bans. In...
As already discussed, bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies remain very volatile. Stablecoins are a solution to this still persistent downside....
In his 2015 book, “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the inside story of the misfits and millionaires trying to reinvent money”,...