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Farzaneh BadieiDigital Medusa is a boutique advisory providing digital governance research and advocacy services. It is the brainchild of Farzaneh Badi[e]i.Digital Medusa’s mission is to provide objective and alternative digital governance narratives.
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Missing Notes on AI Training Standards and Policy
These days, the end users’ preferences—what they want and how they want to access the Internet and AI services and how they want to develop their open source products and services—have become elusive. In most discussions on what content AI...
European Digital Sovereignty: Clearly Not About End User Autonomy
The European Commission published its Communication on European Tech Sovereignty on 3 June 2026, framed as a bold step toward protecting European citizens in the digital age. As always people can argue that sovereignty is about autonomy of...
The Internet Isn’t Supposed to “Feel Good”
Ezra Klein opens a recent episode by asking: when was the last time the Internet “felt good” to you? (program is called we didn’t ask for this Internet)
I would have opened the conversation in another way: when was the last time you could...
Never Again: Defending the Internet as a Lifeline
Iran has been in an almost complete communications shutdown for the past 21 days. Connectivity is not restored until our most vulnerable can connect with their loved ones and access services that they need. If you want to follow the atrocit...
The Internet is not a weapon: Cox v Sony
I watched Cox v. Sony and, more than anything, this case proves that judges—lower, higher, regional, district, whatever kind—need to hear more from the technical and policy community on how we can break the Internet or keep it alive and how...
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Farzaneh Badiei is a recovering academic focused on digital governance, unfettered access to technology, and human rights. She founded Digital Medusa to push back against tech determinism and defend a global, open, rights-respecting digital space.
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