{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Tech Brief","title":"The politics of the internet","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/1410fe8b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1241,"description":"The internet’s multi-stakeholder model faces recurrent pressure from political actors that want to assert control over its backbone infrastructure. These tensions are generated from the accusation that the internet is too US-centric, which seems shared not only by non-Western powers such as Russia and China but also by Europe itself. We discuss the challenges for internet governance and whether there is a need to ‘democratise’ it with Goran Marby, CEO of ICANN.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Rj-VOWAv1LqoiGHRO0Wkq8vj9Vb4CE_o847Fp3v1T50/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5OTgxLzE2NTE1/MDI0NDEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}