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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

“Digital Switzerlands” by Kristen E. Eichensehr, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2019).

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Eichensehr argues for a model of platform behavior and responsibility that would position them as intermediaries between nation-states and individuals – and potential defenders of at-risk populations. Is this model a useful one? Can tech companies really be neutral in the same way that a country like Switzerland can?