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‘Algorithms of Oppression:’ How Corporations Reinforce Racism and Biases

TeleSur | – – “People think of algorithms as simply a mathematical formulation, but in fact, algorithms are really about automated decisions.” Through the book, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” Safiya Umoja Noble, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, USC’s, Annenberg School of Communication, broke down how algorithms work […]

Internet

Thanks to all our Generous Supporters for an Amazing Fundraiser

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many, many thanks to all our very generous and committed contributors for another successful fundraiser! Your donations are key to our plans for a significant redesign and for gradually moving to becoming a magazine. The internet environment is increasingly unpredictable and possibly hostile to small blogs […]

Corruption

FCC begins restoring Corporate Privilege to the Internet

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This web site amounted to anything because of net neutrality, which I prefer to call internet liberty. That liberty is now going or gone. The internet was originally based on the principle that everyone’s web site is as easily reached by users as everyone else’s. All […]

Internet

Can a Free Internet Survive FCC End to Net Neutrality?

TeleSur | – – The Trump administration plans to deregulate internet access, effectively handing over the ‘free internet’ to private corporations. Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, Ajit Pai, an appointee of U.S. President Donald Trump, will be presenting a plan next week to draw a December vote to reverse a 2015 net neutrality […]

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