It would be useful for China’s big tech firms to toe the party line. But the once mutually-beneficial relationship between these companies and the government is becoming increasingly strained.
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The new Alphabet Workers Union is making clear that changes must be put in place, both in education and on the job, to allow engineers to start taking responsibility for the social impact of their work.
Tech companies’ use of dual-class share structures to keep control in the hands of founders and other insiders gives a handful of people power over enormous swaths of American life.
By adding excessive hurdles to the repair process and restricting access to parts, big device manufacturers leave both the customer and small repair businesses disadvantaged.
It is morally unjustifiable for tech companies to walk away from the pandemic with massive profits while schools are burdened with debt.
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter have all agreed to a voluntary code of conduct targeting misinformation. But the only real commitment is to appear as though they’re taking action.
Facebook recently removed Australian news stories from its site. If Ottawa follows Australia’s lead, Facebook might do the same in Canada.
Misinformation isn’t an inevitable product of social media. Proven techniques can help tech companies clean up their acts.
It’s time to create a special remote status for communities that struggle with connectivity challenges and lack access to high-speed internet.
Historically, tech stocks have dominated global stock markets. Despite the pandemic, many continue to grow at remarkable rate.
The web’s inventor believes the liberation of our data will help redistribute power on the internet.
It may have seemed the platforms were taking a confident stance by appealing to Australian users directly. But really, it was a delayed and panic-based reaction.
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
The code could require Google and Facebook to pay up for simply including links to news articles from other sites. This has never been a requirement on the web.
Apple, Twitter and other tech companies were able to unilaterally shut down much of Trump’s communication infrastructure. That’s a lot of power.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution failed to deliver; it’s time that we put our faith once again in hard science.
From pandemic stimulus to China relations, it will soon become clear that there is a new broom in town.
American antitrust proceedings against Facebook represent a dramatic pivot, one that aligns the U.S. government with the global movement seeking greater public oversight of Big Tech.
It’s not only Alibaba and Ant Group that are feeling the heat.
The ABC and SBS have been included in the code. That’s good news, but will compensation received be factored into future government funding decisions for the public broadcasters?
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Professor of English Language and Literature; University Research Chair & Founding Director, Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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