Harry Oppenheimer

@harryoppy.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @ Georgia Tech | digital globalization, cybersecurity, digital political economy. https://sites.gatech.edu/hoppenheimer/.

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

I'm excited to report that "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been conditionally accepted at BJPS. I learned how to be a political scientist by iterating versions of this paper. The next thing this paper will teach me is how to use natbib.

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Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards! Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to daniela.donno@ou.edu. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Section48 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

International Collaboration (Section 48) The International Collaboration (IC) Section of the American Political Science Association works to promote and

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@harryoppy.bsky.social, Anna Ablove, and Roya Ensafi explore the threat to digital equality posed by websites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions, and provide recommendations for combatting this widespread practice.

How Geoblocking Limits Digital Access in Sanctioned States

Websites, faced with the complexity of applying sanctions to digital services, voluntarily restrict risky countries from their platforms. 

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I'm very proud of “Digital Discrimination of Users in Sanctioned States: The Case of the Cuba Embargo” with Roya Ensafi and her team. Usually w/. internet inaccessibility we think bad infrastructure or censorship. Turns out there's a third thing - platforms blocking users from certain countries.

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