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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. Today, a China official said the internet is a new battlefield without gun powder. Even in China? We found that there were users in China couldn’t access the.com site so it was created to give them access.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. 20 There are no managers, only algorithms; no fellow workers, only avatars of competitors; no obvious points of contact or information. James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future , Verso, 2019.

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