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Event | May 21, 2021

BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN A POST-PANDEMIC MARIN

Have we learned the lessons offered us by the disparate impact of the digital divide on our most impacted neighbors and loved ones? Join Canal Alliance, Digital Marin, Marin Promise Partnership, Marin County of Office of Education, City of San Rafael, County of Marin, Marin Economic Forum, the Electronic Frontier...
Event | May 19, 2021

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Seize the Means of Computation

Ryerson Center for Free Expression Series: Taming Big Tech: Exploring the AlternativesCory Doctorow - In Conversation with Andrew Clement​Cory Doctorow is an award-winning author, journalist, and blogger who has worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, and is a Visiting Professor of Computer...

Event | May 12, 2021

Interoperability and Alternative Social Media/Reimagine the Internet

Part of Knight-Columbia's "Reimagine the Internet" festival.This panel will focus on the interoperability of social networks, a popular prescription for weakening the power of politically influential sites like Facebook and Twitter. Author and internet activist Cory Doctorow will speak about “adversarial interoperability,” an “elegant tool” that allows technical innovators...

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Event | June 3, 2021

EFF30 Fireside Chat: Free the Internet, with Gigi Sohn

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.— John Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"Join us for a candid live discussion with net neutrality pioneer Gigi Sohn, who served...
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Event | May 17, 2021

Private Surveillance

We've looked at how municipalities use surveillance technologies and how the public can have input into the acquisition and use process related to these systems, but what about private entities? How are they using technology to surveil us? What happens when private organizations fund surveillance tech or enter into contracts...
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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | May 6, 2021

Outliving Outrage on the Public Interest Internet: the CDDB Story

This blog post is part of a series, looking at the public interest internet—the parts of the internet that don’t garner the headlines of Facebook or Google, but quietly provide public goods and useful services without requiring the scale or the business practices of the tech giants. Read our ...

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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | May 6, 2021

The Enclosure of the Public Interest Internet

This blog post is part of a series, looking at the public interest internet—the parts of the internet that don’t garner the headlines of Facebook or Google, but quietly provide public goods and useful services without requiring the scale or the business practices of the tech giants. Read our ...

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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | May 6, 2021

Introducing the Public Interest Internet

Say the word “internet” these days, and most people will call to mind images of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, of Google and Twitter: sprawling, intrusive, unaccountable. This tiny handful of vast tech corporations and their distant CEOs demand our online attention and dominate the offline headlines. But on the...

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