Geopolitical Internet Forces and Biden: Sepulveda, Strayer, & Mehlman Discuss

“The New Geopolitics Of The Internet: How Will The Biden State Department Navigate Them?” Panel
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The State of the Net Conference is around the corner and we’ve assembled a panel of experts to make sense of the new geopolitical forces shaping Internet policy.

Two former ambassadors, one of DC’s top strategic thinkers, and a Fletcher School professor will debate how sovereign governments are seeking to exert more control over Internet technologies and how the incoming Biden Administration should tackle these issues. Issues include Huwaei, EU DSA, USMCA’s 230, TikTok ban, Privacy Shield, and more.

We’ll announce more speakers and panels on a rolling basis. Follow us on Twitter @SOTN for updates. Registration is now open.

SPEAKERS
Bruce P. Mehlman
Founder 
Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas
Daniel Sepulveda
Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda
Senior Vice President for Policy and Advocacy
MediaMath
Ambassador Robert Strayer
Executive Vice President, Policy
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
Josephine Wolff

Josephine Wolff
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Policy
The Fletcher School of Tufts University
Register
More speakers to be announced shortly.

The New Geopolitics Of The Internet: How Will The Biden State Department Navigate Them?
Increasingly sovereign governments are seeking to exert more control over Internet technologies. Long ago the Internet enmeshed the terrestrial globe with little respect for national borders. Now governments are trying to exert control over Internet companies at all levels of the stack. Intermediary liability laws like the European DSA are becoming more common and the Trump Administration has sought to ban certain smartphone apps in the U.S. Governments are increasingly wary of Internet infrastructure technologies manufactured in foreign countries. Social media companies are now under enormous pressure regarding their users’ speech. The few existing intergovernmental agreements on Internet policy such as the USMCA’s Section 230 language and the EU-US’s Privacy Shield are under enormous strain. Our panel will try to make sense of the new geopolitical challenge.