First published on CircleID — March 6, 2026Part of the ICANN & Governance Series → A Stanford research scholar asks whether the multi-stakeholder model can guide AI. The record of more than a dozen IRPs offers answers he hasn’t considered. Charles Mok’s recent CircleID article, “Do We Need Alignment Between Internet Governance and AI Governance?”, […]
March Late last year, I wrote about Weaponized Anonymity— how unverified digital signals scale faster than verification mechanisms. Recently, I watched that thesis play out in real time. An anonymous claim surfaced. It was indexed. It was amplified. It was ingested by AI systems It began shaping perception —and causing real-world damage. Evidence was submitted.Documentation preserved.The
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February 21, 2026This article is part of the .africa Commentary Series — a living archive of analysis, precedent, and warning from the architect of the .africa domain. In 2015, we won an Independent Review Process against ICANN. The IRP panel ruled that the ICANN Board had violated its own bylaws by failing to conduct due
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