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Why the alt-right can’t build an alt-internet
"Registrars need to be established companies that can demonstrate technical capability and financial stability. If they want to offer recognized domains ex…
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It’s Official: President Elevates U.S. Cyber Command
"The move really doesn’t come as a surprise, says Richard Forno, director of the Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Co…
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Hate on the Web: Does banning neo-Nazi websites raise free-speech issues for the rest of us?
"“This part of the Charlottesville story makes people think about who controls speech on the Internet,” says Daphne Keller of Stanford Law School’s Center…
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Discord, Gab, Hatreon: how the US extreme right is organized. on the Internet to distribute neo-Nazi materials and circumvent the Silicon Valley blockade
"For Morgan Weiland, PhD candidate and junior associate researcher at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School, the discussion is very…
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Why The Sensitive Intersection of Race, Hate Speech And Algorithms Is Heating Up
"Indeed, while Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg reportedly eyes political ambitions within an increasingly brown America in which his own company consistently…
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Facebook, Airbnb Go on Offense Against Nazis After Violence
"That doesn’t mean these companies aren’t feeling the pressure from advertisers and users who fear that pages belonging to alt-right publications like the…
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When Government Rules by Software, Citizens Are Left in the Dark
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, says that pressure from state attorneys general, court cases, and even legislation will be…
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Sorry Elon Musk, the machines will not win
"Last Saturday tech billionaire and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk tweeted a warning that there is “vastly more risk” associated with artificial intellig…
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Canada approves first cryptocurrency sale in property rights shake-up
"Following the growth of bitcoin, the most well known cryptocurrency, there are now more than 1,000 similar digital currencies being traded over the intern…
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Tech Firms Break From Hands-Off Approach With Bans on White Supremacists
""The number of net intermediaries acting as gatekeepers has increased," since GoDaddy booted Daily Stormer, said Daphne Keller, who studies plat…
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If an AI creates a work of art, who owns the rights to it?
"As it stands, AIs in the US cannot be awarded copyright for something they have created. The current policy of the US Copyright Office is to reject claims…
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The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
Most people I talk to think that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies should take down ugly-but-legal user speech. Platforms are generally applau…