Business and the State: Together into the Brave “Cyber World”?

... cyberspace regulation Traditionally, private companies have advocated minimal government intervention into their activities. Yet, starting in 2019, the situation began to change radically. Today, global business is openly calling for stronger government cyberspace regulation. Anastasia Tolstukhina: Global Tech Companies Counter Online Terrorist Content “The government needs to get involved… there will be more regulation of the tech sector”, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft , said in October 2019 to the Bloomberg news agency. A bit earlier, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly voiced the same idea. Tech giants are calling on Western governments to be more actively involved in regulating confidential ...