In her new Forbes article, “The Global Economy Requires A Global Internet,” CTO Leslie Daigle makes the case that how we respond to cyber threats matters as much as the threats themselves.
As she puts it: “The Internet is not simply a communications platform; it is foundational infrastructure for the global economy.”
Domain squatting, IP-address hoarding, intellectual property abuse, and major outages are real, and governments have legitimate reasons to act. But the Internet runs on a single routing system that has to work the same everywhere. When a measure stops at a national border or forces the network to behave differently at that border, the effects spill into other jurisdictions.
“The problem is not regulation itself,” she writes. “The problem is attempting to solve global technical problems through interventions that stop at national borders.”
Many of the Internet’s biggest threats have been addressed through collaboration among competitors, international technical experts, and law enforcement. This is in line with the work GCA does every day. Protecting the Internet from fragmentation “is both a technical objective and an economic imperative.”
Read the full article on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/10/14/the-global-economy-requires-a-global-internet/
