Framework
What is Platform Sovereignty?
Platform sovereignty describes the condition in which a private platform acquires practical governing power over an essential function because exit becomes difficult, slow, or institutionally costly.
Tag
platforms
6 items across the journal, including 6 research pages and 0 cases.
Research
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Cheap Coercion Changes Power Before It Changes Law
By the time a coercive system has a settled regulatory label, the underlying power shift has often already happened. Why institutions systematically miss the transition.
Framework
What Is Distributed Coercion?
Distributed coercion describes a condition in which the ability to intimidate, compel, disrupt, or physically harm others becomes modular, networked, and purchasable — and why existing security frameworks systematically under-read the shift.
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From Cybercrime to Platform-Enabled Crime
The language of cybercrime often misses the way criminal activity now operates through mainstream commercial infrastructure rather than outside it.
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Platform Neutrality Is a Temporary Illusion
A platform can look neutral while it is still optional. Once dependence deepens, neutrality gives way to governance.
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When Neutral Platforms Become War Infrastructure
Most commentary on Starlink in Ukraine treats the story as a drama about personality or corporate politics. The deeper issue is structural: a privately governed platform became indispensable inside a coercive system but was still governed as a platform. Once that happened, neutrality stopped being stable.