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The US Has a Historic Opportunity to Bridge the Digital Divide
Access to affordable, reliable, high-speed internet is a civil right. For those who remain on the wrong side of the digital divide, economic, educational, and civic engagement opportunities...
‘Clean Slate’ Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to Some
Clean slate laws are sweeping the country, offering many of the estimated 70 to 100 million people with a criminal record the chance to have their record expunged....
Europe’s Big Tech Law Is Approved. Now Comes the Hard Part
The potential gold standard for online content governance in the EU—the Digital Services Act—is now a reality after the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for the legislation earlier this...
It’s Not Too Late to Save the Metaverse
Ethicist and researcher Lucy Sparrow further argues for the need for a “community manager” approach to moderation, whereby some moderators are tasked not just with quietly managing content...
Democracy Is Asking Too Much of Its Data
Abraham Lincoln once expressed the desire, in a time of civil war, to preserve a government that was “of the people, by the people, for the people.” What...
One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
Shortly after I learned about Eliza, the program that asks people questions like a Rogerian psychoanalyst, I learned that I could run it in my favorite text editor,...
