free speech

Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

Events April 16, 2021

In this session, Jillian C. York discusses her book “Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism,” while keeping in mind these two crucial questions: How do companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our democracy? And what happens to free speech under surveillance capitalism? The internet once promised to be a place …

Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism [Bread&Net 2020 Session]Read More »

Content Moderation Bias: Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube Cancel Leila Khaled

News September 25, 2020

On September 23, Zoom cancelled a virtual event featuring the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (PFLP) veteran Leila Khaled. The virtual event was organized by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicity and Diasporas Studies (AMED Studies) at San Francisco State University (SFSU). After the event was announced on Facebook, certain Jewish and Zionist …

Content Moderation Bias: Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube Cancel Leila KhaledRead More »