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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

“Photos of Aaron Swartz at memorial at Internet Archive in San Francisco” by Steve Rhodes is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0   The beginning of the film throws a question to the audience by quoting Thoreau’s words ‘Unjust laws […]

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Content moderation: some attempts and disputes

“…platforms find that they must serve as setters of norms, interpreters of laws…adjudicators of disputes, and enforcers of whatever rules they choose to establish…they now find themselves its custodians.” (Gillespie, 2018, p.5)   In recent […]

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Is content moderation fully well-established?

The past decade has seen the rapid development of the internet as a free speech platform. Compared with traditional media, users can be engaged with the internet as content creators besides consumers. However, questions were […]

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Techlash

What is meant by “techlash”? Discuss the public concerns that lie behind the techlash. To what extent can these concerns be addressed by governments, by civil society organisations, and by the technology companies themselves?    […]

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Internet:The Everyday Sexism In Digital Life

In 2013, The Autcomplete Truth, an advertisement jointly created by Memac & Mather Dubai, revealed the prevalence of discrimination against women in Google search engine(Noble, 2020) .It shows that, if one searches for “Women should” in Google […]

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The problems of content moderation

This article mainly discusses the problems that arise during the content moderation process, as well as the disputes arising from the people who implement the content review and the government’s role in the control of […]