industryterm:internet platform

Uberland
▻http://uberlandbook.com

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and internet platforms. Uberland chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel (...)

#Uber #algorithme #travail #travailleurs #surveillance

Who Will Fix #Facebook? – Rolling Stone
▻https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/who-will-fix-facebook-759916

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The flip side of being too little engaged is to have intimate relationships between foreign governments and companies involved in speech regulation.

In March this year, for instance, after the company had unknowingly helped spread a campaign of murder, rape and arson in Myanmar, Facebook unpublished the popular Palestinian news site SAFA, which had 1.3 million followers.

SAFA had something like official status, an online answer to the Palestine Authority’s WAFA news agency. (SAFA has been reported to be sympathetic to Hamas, which the publication denies.) Its operators say they also weren’t given any reason for the removal. “They didn’t even send us a message,” says Anas Malek, SAFA’s social media coordinator. “We were shocked.”

The yanking of SAFA took place just ahead of a much-publicized protest in the region: the March 30th March of the Great Return, in which Gaza Strip residents were to try to return to their home villages in Israel; it resulted in six months of violent conflict. Malek and his colleagues felt certain SAFA’s removal from Facebook was timed to the march. “This is a direct targeting of an effective Palestinian social media voice at a very critical time,” he says.

Israel has one of the most openly cooperative relationships with Facebook: The Justice Ministry in 2016 boasted that Facebook had fulfilled “95 percent” of its requests to delete content. The ministry even proposed a “Facebook bill” that would give the government power to remove content from Internet platforms under the broad umbrella of “incitement.” Although it ultimately failed, an informal arrangement already exists, as became clear this October.

That month, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate announced that Facebook was removing “thousands” of accounts ahead of municipal elections. Jordana Cutler, Facebook’s head of policy in Israel — and a former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — said the company was merely following suggestions. “We receive requests from the government but are not committed to them,” Cutler said.

70+ #internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU #copyright Filtering Proposal | Electronic Frontier Foundation
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal

By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet, from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. Moreover, because these exceptions are not consistent across #europe, and because there is no broad fair use right as in the United States, many harmless uses of copyright works in memes, mashups, and remixes probably are technically infringing even if no reasonable copyright owner would object. If an automated system monitors and filters out these technical infringements, then the permissible scope of freedom of expression in Europe will be radically curtailed, even without the (...)

Urban matter

▻http://transdisciplinary.net

Yvonne P. Doderer

SHINING CITIES
Gender Relations and Other Issues in Urban Development
of the Twenty-First Century

fichier pdf ici : nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-dppl-v3-en8

In the twenty-first century, the majority of people are living in cities—at least this is the credo communicated frequently. This statement has been strengthened by the “urban renaissance” that dawned at the beginning of the twenty-first century and by a globally evident increase in capital investment in urban-development projects. Such planning endeavors are conveyed to the public, the political sphere, and the media with the help of Internet platforms. The visualizations and descriptions found on such project websites are associated with promises of modernization, appeal, and economic growth—in short, with a better life.
In this publication, images and texts from 12 projects planned for Europe, Africa, and Asia are surveyed critically: What do they “tell” about future life in these new urban districts? Who will live and work in these cities? Which forms of living and lifestyles are propagated? And most importantly: How do these designs relate to actual urban reality, including that of the inhabitants to whom the projects are addressed?

Written in a comprehensible way, supplemented by illustrations and photographs, this in-depth analysis sensitizes the reader to the interconnections between urban-space production and societal (gender) relations.

#urban_matter #genre #inégalités #discriminations

Shadow Regulations
▻https://www.eff.org/issues/shadow-regulation

Shadow Regulations are voluntary agreements between companies (sometimes described as codes, principles, standards, or guidelines) to regulate your use of the Internet, often without your knowledge.

Shadow Regulation has become increasingly popular after the monumental failure of restrictive Internet laws such as ACTA, SOPA and PIPA. This is because Shadow Regulation can involve restrictions that are as effective as any law, but without the need for approval by a court or parliament. Indeed, sometimes Shadow Regulation is even initiated by government officials, who offer companies the Hobson’s choice of coming up with a “voluntary” solution, or submitting to government regulation.

How Big Pharma’s Shadow Regulation Censors the Internet
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/how-big-pharmas-shadow-regulation-censors-internet

This particular Shadow Regulation network contains a confusing web of similar-sounding organizations with overlapping memberships, such as the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) and the Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP). In simple terms the former is comprised mostly of the pharmaceutical industry, whereas the latter pulls in its partners such as Internet platforms (Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!), payment processors (PayPal, Mastercard, and American Express), delivery providers (UPS), and domain name companies (GoDaddy and Rightside). A third key player is LegitScript, which was instrumental in the formation of both ASOP and CSIP, and carries out most of the operational level arrangements that are agreed at a level of principle by those organizations. Internet users are not represented at board level in either ASOP, CSIP, or LegitScript.

A hallmark of Shadow Regulation is that government is also often quietly involved behind the scenes, and so it is here. The formation of the CSIP was announced at a White House-hosted industry event [PDF] on October 14, 2010, following months of talks between the administration and the CSIP’s founding industry members. Similarly, LegitScript is led by the former Associate Deputy Director Office of National Drug Control Policy, and subsists on lucrative contracts from government as well as from private industry. With this framework in place, the “voluntary” adoption by Internet intermediaries of measures that primarily benefit the pharmaceutical industry suddenly becomes very easily explicable.

#Etats-Unis #démocratie #farce #big_pharma

Threat of seven years’ jail and $15m fine for ‘wrong’ India maps - FT.com

la nouvelle loi dit : “No person shall depict, disseminate, publish or distribute any wrong or false topographic information of India including international boundaries through internet platforms or online services in any electronic or physical form.” The maximum penalty for wrongly depicting the map will be a fine of Rs1bn ($15m) and imprisonment for up to seven years.

Vous m’amènerez des oranges.

▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8ca85bf0-1383-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173.html

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India is proposing a draconian new security law that could lead to seven years in jail and a $15m fine for anyone who publishes a “wrong” map of the country that shows disputed territory as lying outside its borders.

The draft law, published for consultation by the home affairs ministry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, will require organisations that offer maps, such as Google, to apply to a “security vetting authority” and buy licences to use official mapping data.

#inde #pakistan #frontières #conflit_frontalier

The secret rules of the #internet | The Verge
►http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech

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Mora-Blanco is one of more than a dozen current and former employees and contractors of major internet platforms from YouTube to Facebook who spoke to us candidly about the dawn of content moderation. Many of these individuals are going public with their experiences for the first time. Their stories reveal how the boundaries of free speech were drawn during a period of explosive growth for a high-stakes public domain, one that did not exist for most of human history. As law professor Jeffrey Rosen first said many years ago of Facebook, these platforms have “more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president.”

#free_speech #modération #surveillance #contrôle #liberté_d'expression #féminisme à plusieurs niveaux (ne serait-ce que parce que la grande majorité des modérateurices sont des femmes et mal payées, et décrivent ce #travail comme une #guerre), des #blackface aussi, etc etc ; énorme article donc, et avec un beau travail d’illustration

EU Consultation on future #internet regulation - have your say! - EDRi
▻https://edri.org/platformsconsultationtool

The European Commission has launched a consultation on the role of “Internet platforms” – which it basically defines as pretty much any online services you can think of! ▻https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Platforms

The consultation is of crucial importance because it will help define the rules that govern how you use the Internet. It will be crucial for new rules on important issues such as online law enforcement, online privacy, open data and copyright.

The right to hyperlink, the right to privacy, the right not to have your uploads deleted by YouTube or Facebook. These are just some of the issues at stake.

It is your internet. These are your rights. This is your one chance.

In order to make things easier, EDRi has created an “answering guide” – an online tool with the European (...)

#europe #politique

Report on the prevention of radicalisation and recruitment by terrorist organisations

A non-legislative report drafted by Rachida Dati was approved in European Parliament Committee. Amongst other things, it calls Member States to consider taking legal action against internet companies refusing to comply with requests to delete illegal content.

▻http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A8-2015-0316+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN

This is described in the following paragraph of section III:

14. Recalls that internet companies and service providers have a legal responsibility to cooperate with Member State authorities by deleting any illegal content that spreads violent extremism, expeditiously and with full respect for the rule of law and fundamental rights, including freedom of expression; believes that Member States should consider legal actions against internet companies which refuse to comply with an administrative or judicial request to delete illegal content on their internet platforms; believes that refusal or deliberate failure by internet platforms to cooperate, thus allowing such illegal content to circulate, should be considered an act of complicity that can be equated to criminal intent or neglect and that those responsible should in such cases be brought to justice.

Contents of the report:
I. European added value in the prevention of terrorism
II. Preventing violent extremism and terrorist radicalisation in prisons
III. Preventing online terrorist radicalisation
IV. Preventing radicalisation through education and social inclusion
V. Stepping up the exchange of information on terrorist radicalisation in Europe
VI. Strengthening deterrents against terrorist radicalisation
VII. Preventing the departure and anticipating the return of radicalised European citizens recruited by terrorist organisations
VIII. Strengthening links between internal and external security in the EU
IX. Promoting the exchange of good practices on deradicalisation
X. Dismantling terrorist networks

Top universities join free online teaching platform | Education | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/top-universities-free-online-classes

Twelve leading universities in the US and Europe have joined an internet platform created by two Stanford University scientists which provides free online access to classes designed by academics at elite institutions.
The move, announced on Tuesday, marks a significant expansion of online university teaching. Observers say it heralds a shakeup of the classic lecture theatre model.