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Author:
York, Jillian, author.
Title:
Silicon values : the future of free speech under surveillance capitalism / Jillian C. York.
Publisher:
Verso,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xii, 292 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Social media--Censorship.
Political science.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. The new gatekeepers -- 2. Offline repression is replicated online -- 3. Social media revolutionaries -- 4. Profit over people -- 5. Extremism calls for extreme measures -- 6. Twenty-first-century Victorians -- 7. The war on sex -- 8. From humans to machines -- 9. The virality of hate -- 10. The future is ours to write -- Postscript to the paperback edition.
Summary:
"Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? Who determines when political debate becomes hate speech? How does this impact our identity or our ability to create communities and to protest? Silicon Values reports on the war for digital rights and how major corporations--Facebook, Twitter, Google and Tiktok--threaten democracy as they harvest our personal data in the pursuit of profit."--Amazon.com.
ISBN:
9781788738811
1788738810
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1252050737
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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