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Contribution (in French) to ARCEP's 2023 State of the Internet Report (L’état d’internet en France). You can read the press release (French) and the full report (French, pdf, van Schewick contribution on p. 48) here. Read more about La Parole à Barbara van Schewick: La Neutralité du Net aux Etats-Unis
Contribution to ARCEP's 2023 State of the Internet Report. You can read the press release (English), full report (French, pdf, van Schewick contribution on p. 48), and the complete section on Guaranteeing Net Neutrality (English, pdf, van Schewick contribution on p. 4) here. Read more about Open Floor to Barbara van Schewick: Net Neutrality in the United States
Social media finally pulled the plug on Donald Trump. Days after Trump incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter permanently banned the president from its platform, and many other social media companies like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat suspended Trump’s accounts as well.
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It was inevitable. On Monday, Zoom joined an exclusive club of tech companies – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Uber, Snap, and more. This club involves companies that have been under a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent decree. In a weird sense, for tech companies, being enforced against by the FTC for a privacy or security violation has become an initiation ritual to being recognized in the pantheon of the tech company big leagues. Read more about The FTC Zoom Case: Does the FTC Need a New Approach?
People should no more believe in dystopia than utopia. The fact is that technology has changed the world for so many for so long for the better—from reduction of disease to extending life to increased food and health—that to dismiss those gains is just know-nothingism. As with all technological advances, not everyone shares equally in the gains or benefits in the same way, and some may even experience disproportionately negative impacts, but that does not diminish the overall societal value of the advancements. Read more about Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?