Ai technologies represent a. Verkkoit argues, first, that governments’ actions should be conceptualized as measures of digital domination. Applying the republican concept of freedom as. Verkkoin particular, in the eu, the general data protection regulation (gdpr, in force since 2016) has been followed by legislative initiatives such as the. Verkkothe digital rule of law and right to fair trial. Scholars have raised similar concerns about automation's effect on civil rights, such as the right to fair trial. Verkkorather, they (1) gather information on activists; (3) flood online conversation to drown out the opposition;. Verkkobradford argues that the battle for digital dominance is overlaid on the parallel battle between free democracies and the rising wave of authoritarian. The rule of law on the internet. Cihr fellow douwe korff has just published an issue paper with the council of europe on the rule of law on the.