How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation, Jillian C. York charts the war over our digital rights. She looks at both how the big corporations have become unaccountable censors, and the devastating impact it has had on those who have been censored.
Author and activist Jillian C. York will read an excerpt from her forthcoming book and answer questions from the audience.
The book can be purchased here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3772-silicon-values
Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Surveillance Self-Defense and Onlinecensorship.org. Jillian's writing has been featured in Motherboard, the Guardian, Quartz, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others.Jillian is a fellow at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights in Berlin and a founding member of... Read More →
