In the first episode of Your Voice, Emily Harris and James Walker discuss Alessandro Nardone’s article on the growing threat to free speech in the West. Nardone argues that government and tech platform control of information is creating a “dictatorship of thought.” Inspired by Edward Snowden’s revelations, he warns that content moderation is stifling debate. […]
Edward Snowden, the young computer scientist who shook the world in 2013 with his revelations about mass surveillance, motivated his decision by stating that “giving up privacy because we have nothing to hide is like giving up the right to speak because we have nothing to say.” A sentence that today, in the midst of […]
Many fans of the Matrix trilogy will certainly remember the famous definition of Morpheus who, explaining to Neo the differences between the real world and that artifact one where humans had been locked up by “machines”, spoke to him about “mental projection of your digital self”.
The Web Summit reaches its tenth edition and lately it has been held in Lisbon. According to Forbes, this is the “best tech conference on the planet” and, in fact, the numbers are very impressive: 1,800 startups, 1,500 investors and 2,000 media representatives for over 70,000 participants who came to Portugal from 163 Countries. The […]
Thanks to Edward Snowden we know that all our actions are under control, yet we act as if nothing happens.
by Alex Anderson MOSCOW – Money, work, freedom: he gave up everything to tell us that Orwell was right, even though we live in reality and not in the pages of a novel. We are all intercepted. Thanks to him, Obama admitted it, and before ending his presidency, he signed a bill to extend the […]
