🎋The Non-Aligned Tech Movement Newsletter #31 is out! -NAM’s call for Informational autonomy 50 years later -China launches AI governance forum-> 29 countries joined -Mega-datacenters on the rise -Ongoing tech diversification efforts & more-> nonalignedtech.net/31-nams-call...
Juan Ortiz Freuler
@juanof9.bsky.social
Emerging Tech: Law - Power - Policy Geopolitical Cycles & Tech for Active Non-Alignment NYC-BA www.juanof.me Posts♻️⏳
US-Saudi nuclear deal www.reuters.com/world/why-do... A way of countering China, which had invited Saudi Arabia to join BRICS + which is SA's 2nd biggest oil purchaser (US share became negligible after fracking) Chips+Energy: New petrodollar deal? digitalresilience.network/wp-content/u...
The arc of the internet and the debates on content moderation are all contained in a short story...from 1941: Borges: The Library of Babel: sites.evergreen.edu/politicalsha...
Two AI superpowers, shared risks, no shared rules. Pedro Kritski and Virgilio Almeida argue that fear of autonomous weapons should mobilize democratic debate. It "cannot be left solely to governments, armed forces, or technology companies"—it must involve civil society before it's too late.
Why Fear Matters in Governing Military AI
Military AI regulation cannot be left solely to governments, armed forces, or technology companies, write Pedro Kritski and Virgilio Almeida.
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NATM Newsletter #30 is out! #30 EU strategic indecision, Vatican interventions, pressures keep mounting on the South ↙️ nonalignedtech.net/30-eu-strate...
The United States sanctioned Chilean officials who were assessing a proposal to build an undersea cable between Chile and Hong Kong. It wants to ensure South America data flows through cables owned by US companies, giving it the ability to surveil that data.
Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no
A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions.
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A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions https://restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/?utm_campaign=row-social
📰 🏗️ 🌎 Happy to share my ✨latest article✨: "Informational Sovereignty: The Commercial and Geopolitical Risk of Newsroom Dependency on Third-Party Infrastructure in Latin America", which was published by the International Journal of Communication (IJOC). ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Bottom right quadrant of my Table 1 surprisingly in line with the latest Vatican encyclical ("magnifica humanitas"): ->"110. [...] To disarm...means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate..." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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I propose a re-framing of cyber-propaganda as a shared global challenge & develop a taxonomy that distinguishes between infrastructural and operational components of that can help us tackle it!
This looks a great read... Ortiz-Freuler, J. (2026). Neutralising the propaganda machine: proposals for cyber-propaganda de-escalation. Journal of Cyber Policy, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/2373...
Neutralising the propaganda machine: proposals for cyber-propaganda de-escalation
As the internet becomes central to social interactions, the risks associated with cyber-propaganda continue to grow. In the context of this article, I discuss cyber – propaganda as state – directed...
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🌟New article🌟: "Neutralising the propaganda machine: proposals for cyber-propaganda de-escalation" was published in @tandfresearch.bsky.social the Journal of Cyber Policy! 🧵 --> www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3VSGI...
@juanof9.bsky.social dissects the state of information sovereignty in Latin America, by tracing newsrooms' dependency on third-party digital infrastructure across 6 countries ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Informational Sovereignty: The Commercial and Geopolitical Risk of Newsroom Dependency on Third-Party Infrastructure in Latin America | International Journal of Communication
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Happy to share my latest article, co-authored with Manuel Castells! This article advances an analytical framework illuminating how global communication power manifests across three key interfaces: search engines, social networking sites, and AI agents. Link in comment
Conectados o atados a EEUU? Marco Rubio presiona a Chile para frenar primer cable submarino Asia-América Latina. Traducción de la nota que escribimos con el ex embajador de Chile en China, Jorge Heine via #Observacom www.observacom.org/conectados-o...
Our February issue features insights from @juanof9.bsky.social on digital governance stacks and collectively securing political autonomy in an age of rapid governance automation. botpopuli.net/digital-gove...
Digital Governance Stacks and the Infrastructure of Empires
Today’s state-run digital public infrastructure, in general, and decision-making tools that conform to governance stacks in particular, enable an unpre...
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Non-Aligned Tech Movement Newsletter #26: Geopolitical centre of gravity is shifting towards China- The US - China trade are decoupling – Africa importing Chinese solar panels at scale -Launch of LatamGPT +Call for abstracts nonalignedtech.net/26-us-calls-...
Why evoke the worn-out violence of saying: "kill two birds with one stone" when you can "feed two birds with one fruit" And have someone's neurons dance for a second to provide an actual mental image of that...
Newsletter #25 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out: -New NAM chair -Starlink Jammed in Iran? -US cyberattacks on Venezuela? -Falling trust in the US -Eurostack anxieties -Africa's Energy Grid -Mercosur-EU trade deal...and more👇 nonalignedtech.net/25-new-nam-c...
Beautiful reflection by @lumusello.bsky.social regarding a reading group on Dependency Theory we are hosting at the Non-Aligned Tech Movement 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Newsletter #24 is out! Emerging Silicon Trade Blocs, Robot industry in China, and Open Source defenses? nonalignedtech.net/24-emerging-...
The Amazon Web Services outage shows how a handful of corporate players control sensitive information chokepoints. These chokepoints can be leveraged to advance commercial or political agendas. Here are 6 strategies Governments are using to neutralize them: policyreview.info/articles/ana...
What are epistemic rights? My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy. www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...
Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press
This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.
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Newsletter #22 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out: Geopolitical shake-ups in the lower layers of the stack: Semiconductors, Chips, Minerals 🌋 nonalignedtech.net/22-geopoliti... #NAM -> #NATM
Will human rights guide technological development? Here's a 5-part series featuring experts from around the world I curated for #OpenGlobalRights: (Link in comment)
We need an infrastructural revolution for supporting digital rights ↓ www.openglobalrights.org/networks-ove...
Networks over organizations: An infrastructural revolution for digital rights
The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda.
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Newsletter #21 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out: AI Action Plans, corporate Chin-exit🪂…and non-aligned dreams? nonalignedtech.net/21-ai-action...
Newsletter #20 of the Non-Aligned Tech Movement is out! –> Sovereign Tech Shifts 🔀 | South Korea’s AI Play, US-China Chip Tax, & Iran’s GPS Exit? -> nonalignedtech.net/20-sovereign... - #NATM #GPS #BeiDou #WhatsApp #China #USA #EU #NonAlignedMovement
Tomorrow at 11 AM, I’ll be presenting my research on how lessons from disarmament processes can help us dismantle propaganda systems and safeguard the internet as a shared space for knowledge. #IPSA2025 – Room 4F 402
Heading off to #IGF2025 ! Drop a line if you're planning to attend!