🎤 New Tech Policy Press podcast, responding to breaking news! 🎤 A Brazilian judge ordered the suspension of #X after a prolonged dispute with Elon Musk. Justin Hendrix spoke to The Intercept's Laís Martins, Nucleo Journalism's Sérgio Spagnuolo, and the Insper Institute's Ivar Alberto Hartmann about what precipitated the suspension, and what may happen next: https://lnkd.in/d9DxM-HH
Tech Policy Press
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Technology, power, policy and people.
About us
Our goal is to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology, democracy and policy, with a particular focus on: • Concentrations of power: the interaction of tech platforms, governments and the media and the future of the public sphere; • Geopolitics of technology: how nation states approach technology in the pursuit of advantage; • Technology and the economy: the relationship between markets, business, and labor; • Racism, bigotry, violence & oppression: how tech exacerbates or solves such challenges; • Ethics of Technology: how technology should be viewed alongside existing democratic ethos, especially with regard to privacy, surveillance and personal freedoms; • Election integrity & participation: mechanisms of democracy, problems such as disinformation and how citizens come to consensus.
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- 2020
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- media, democracy, technology, and policy
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Employees at Tech Policy Press
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Justin Hendrix
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Desmond Patton
Expert in #AIEthics,AI&Race, Social Media and Mental Health, Gun Violence Prevention. Schwartz University Professor at Penn. Top #50 in Digital…
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Amber Sinha
Information Fellow, Tech Policy Press
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Tim Bernard
Trust & Safety | Tech policy | Cornell Tech MBA '22
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Telegram cofounder and CEO Pavel Durov's arrest raises pressing questions about how to balance the need for security with the protection of fundamental rights, writes @Mallory Knodel. #durov #telegram #freespeech #encryption
The Arrest Of Telegram’s Pavel Durov: What’s Encryption Got To Do With It? | TechPolicy.Press
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Have some free time this Labor Day weekend? Catch up on all the US tech policy developments you might have missed in the month of August with a roundup from Tech Policy Press and Rachel Lau and J.J. Tolentino of Freedman Consulting, LLC. Here are some highlights: ⏺ A district court judge found that #Google violated federal antitrust law by acting to maintain a monopoly in online search. Federal appeals courts also issued two important decisions that may affect efforts to regulate #socialmedia and hold them legally liable. ⏺ The state legislature in #California passed a number of hashtag#AI governance and transparency laws ahead of the session’s last day before the election. Google also agreed to support a public/private partnership to provide funding for #journalism in California. ⏺ With both political conventions now concluded, the differences in the candidates’ plans for #techpolicy become clearer.
August 2024 US Tech Policy Roundup | TechPolicy.Press
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Tech Policy Press is tracking official documents, media coverage, and notable reactions to the circumstances surrounding the arrest of #Telegram CEO and cofounder Pavel Durov. This post will be updated as new materials become available. #durov #tracker #socialmedia #tech
Pavel Durov Arrest Tracker | TechPolicy.Press
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Have some free time this Labor Day weekend? Catch up on all the US tech policy developments you might have missed in the month of August with a roundup from Tech Policy Press and Rachel Lau and J.J. Tolentino of Freedman Consulting, LLC. Here are some highlights: ⏺ A district court judge found that #Google violated federal antitrust law by acting to maintain a monopoly in online search. Federal appeals courts also issued two important decisions that may affect efforts to regulate #socialmedia and hold them legally liable. ⏺ The state legislature in #California passed a number of #AI governance and transparency laws ahead of the session’s last day before the election. Google also agreed to support a public/private partnership to provide funding for #journalism in California. ⏺ With both political conventions now concluded, the differences in the candidates’ plans for #techpolicy become clearer.
August 2024 US Tech Policy Roundup | TechPolicy.Press
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If you happen to be someone who studies the relationship between tech oligarchs and state power, the past few days of news events have provided you with much to consider, writes Justin Hendrix. #durov #musk #zuckerberg #oligarchy
Durov, Musk, and Zuckerberg: Tech Oligarchs Cry Censorship and What It All Means | TechPolicy.Press
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Tech Policy Press reposted this
🛑 That Google was able to throw its monopoly power around to get policymakers to table legislation in favor of a "deal" should worry every citizen. As Meetali Jain and I write, "democracy doesn't take place behind closed doors. Google is currently being scrutinized by multiple regulators and courts for its anti-competitive behavior. A private-public partnership is not how sound policy is made to regulate monopoly power. No deal Google supports will ever address its dominance and control; that can only occur through regulation and antitrust enforcement." Read more about the deal and our concerns in Tech Policy Press. https://lnkd.in/gB-CtkSX
Google Attempts to Kill Sustainable Solution to Local Journalism in Backroom Deal | TechPolicy.Press
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#Google cut a deal with #California policymakers to shut down the prospect of #regulation, write Sarah Kay Wiley and Meetali Jain. It's a bad deal for #journalism, and for citizens of the state:
Google Attempts to Kill Sustainable Solution to Local Journalism in Backroom Deal | TechPolicy.Press
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Sifting through the techno-social debris. Writer, researcher & artist focused on understanding & mitigating harms of AI.
Do you ever feel like, in every conversation you have about AI, there is a set of assumptions that steers the conversation into unhelpful directions — even among people who *know* these shorthands are problematic? I call these AI myths. And no number of values statements or policy proposals will make an impact if they use metaphors and mental models that affirm those myths. My latest article for Tech Policy Press is an effort to name them — to help us recognize our reliance on these myths, call them out in our own thinking, and be more critical in the work ahead. I’m grateful to Daniel Stone for chatting with me about his work on the frames of AI for this piece! He is well worth a follow. https://lnkd.in/gWCReUFp #aimyths #aihype #aiethics #aipolicy
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
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