How democracies can turn out to become digital dictators
Political unrests are cropping up in various places in India, and the Indian government has resorted to internet blackout to control citizen resistance.
Political unrests are cropping up in various places in India, and the Indian government has resorted to internet blackout to control citizen resistance.
The Russian government may not have the capacity to shutdown the internet in the entire country, but its capacity to control and collect digital information is growing with every test.
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Social media and the internet has opened new issues in the way laws are implemented. How may these impact future laws?
The Syrian Archive is discovering that much of the videos from the war are being deleted automatically by AI. How will this affect the way we see, and understand the past, present, and future?
Whose right is more important: business or citizens? With Google’s AI, Monsanto was able to hide the truth about glyphosate.
Politically contentious Wikipedia entries relating to China are undergoing multiple edits per day. Who is behind it?
The internet is a safe space for communicating your opinion – if you have no business interests to lose. Look at how a single statement directed against the second most powerful (if not THE most powerful) country in the world world) can ruins career.
Did the Tiananmen Square Massacre really happen? For the rest of the world, it did, but in China, it is slowly being deleted out of online memory.
In this article for The New York Times Ai Weiwei explains how online censorship changes the rational order behind the natural and spiritual worlds.