#Techlash

Paul Krugman highlights a troubling trend: under Trump's presidency, America's scientific and educational landscape faces peril as Big Tech shifts allegiances from Democrats. Key issues include slashed science funding and rising intimidation that hinders foreign scholars. Amid a growing public distrust, once-esteemed tech figures now grapple with backlash. This shift prompts questions about the ethics of tech leaders and their alliance with Trump’s administration. Read more here: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why #PaulKrugman #BigTech #Democrats #Trump #ScienceFunding #Techlash #Regulation #SocialMedia #BidenAdministration

2025-02-27

Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering
in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March!
youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t2T07d7
#ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social

2025-01-05

"She offers a range of solutions, from banning what she sees as clearly antidemocratic technologies (like face-recognition software and other spyware tools) to creating independent teams of expert advisors to members of Congress (who are often clearly out of their depth when attempting to understand technologies and business models). "

#oligarchy #techlash #regulation

technologyreview.com/2024/12/1

Media of Cooperationmediaofcoop
2024-11-19

The next lecture in our series will be by Emily West: In Digital Platforms We Trust: Data Capture and Pre-Emptive Governance in Tech Companies’ Environmental Policies and initiatives
⏰ November 20, at 2:15 pm
👉 registration: u-si.de/kZwhc

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@sebgiessmann @timmoritz @taz_seitz @Enriya @bumatic @skoopit

With the #tech industry under threat of litigation, Californians have the most to lose financially. #Techlash could potentially cost each of them over $16,000 in retirement savings.

Alec Muffettalecmuffett
2024-07-01

Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?
alecmuffett.com/article/109982

2024-07-01

Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?

It also proposes expanding the Economic Crime Act to include an offence for tech companies that fail to prevent scams on their platforms.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4329608/labour-plans-tech-giants-liable-reimbursing-victims-online-fraud-report

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109982

#fraud #regulation #techlash

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏FerdiZ@mastodon.cloud
2024-03-15

Tim Berners-Lee writes an open letter on the occasion of the World Wide Web's 35th anniversary..:

✍️ medium.com/@timberners_lee/mar

#fz_links #OpenWeb #TechLash #BreakOpenTheSilos

2023-12-22

“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening

https://itif.org/publications/2020/09/28/podcast-technology-panic-attacks-radio-social-media-amy-orben/

#madnessOfCrowds #techlash

https://alecmuffett.com/article/108629

2023-11-20

This year’s business travel is in the books for me: With my return from Web Summit in Lisbon Friday, the rest of 2023 has no more out-of-town conference badges or hotel keys left. That’s pretty exciting, even if CES looms seven weeks away.

11/13/2023: T-Mobile Within Striking Distance of Becoming Fifth-Largest US ISP, PCMag

The way 5G has brought choice and competition to millions of American homes remains an underappreciated story in telecom.

11/14/2023: Is big tech killing trust?, Web Summit

I interviewed Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker and University of California at Irvine professor Veena Dubal about ways that people might reclaim some leverage against tech giants. Our conversation had some hiccups, in the form of acoustics that Whittaker said made it difficult for her to hear me–even while I could hear her mostly fine.

11/14/2023: Strike Up the Bands: White House National Spectrum Strategy Light on Mobile Details, PCMag

I stayed up late Monday to file this post unpacking the long-awaited release of the White House’s spectrum-policy roadmap–and explaining how some of the spectrum bands covered in the document seem unlikely to boost bandwidth to any phones or homes.

11/15/2023: Mozilla: Friends Don’t Get Friends These Tech Gifts, PCMag

I was going to write up the release of the 2023 edition of Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” anti-gift guide based on an advance look at the press release about it, then saw enough questions unanswered by that embargoed release that I decided to wait until the next morning to file. And then this nonprofit’s post announcing the guide had very little in common with the copy I’d seen before.

11/16/2023: Audience with a robot: AGI and a decentralised beneficial Singularity, Web Summit

My first panel Thursday had me interviewing one human, SingularityNet COO Janet Adams, and one non-human, that company’s talking, AI-powered robot Desdemona. I decided to test the robot’s conversational skills by asking her questions based on the Three Laws of Robotics and the Voight-Kampff Test, and she fielded them reasonably well.

11/16/2023: Raising money for robots, Web Summit

In my second panel Thursday, I interviewed Energy Robotics CEO Marc Dassler about the investment climate for robotics startups. We had fewer people show up to watch this, which I think has a great deal to do with this panel being scheduled right before a lunch break.

11/17/2023: Why Qualcomm Wants to Keep More of Your AI Offline, PCMag

I sat down with Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire Wednesday after watching one of his panels, then turned my notes from that interview into this post.

11/18/2023: Starship’s Second Flight Test Burns Bright But Not Quite Long Enough, PCMag

I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters report documenting some fairly gruesome workplace-safety issues with Starship.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/19/weekly-output-wireless-broadband-rises-tech-vs-trust-national-spectrum-strategy-mozilla-non-gift-guide-ai-meets-robotics-robotics-startup-fundraising-qualcomms-on-device-ai-pitch-starship-f/

#BigTech #Desdemona #EnergyRobotics #fixedWirelessAccess #giftGuide #Lisbon #NationalSpectrumStrategy #onDeviceAI #PrivacyNotIncluded #Qualcomm #roboticsStartups #SingularityNet #SpaceX #spectrumBands #Starship #TMobileHome5G #techlash #Verizon5GHome #WebSummit

Photo of my speaker badge in front of a Web Summit poster
Christian Katzenbachcka@aoir.social
2023-09-21

Any new empirical work on the #techlash against social media platform, in the sense of increasing negative reporting? I am still puzzled that there is not more work on this. @npseaver, I remember we had a Twitter conversation on this, and there was one person mentioning their work but I cannot find it, account deleted. Any new findings? (BTW Our own work presented at #ICA22 is still not published 🙈)

2023-03-11

Ongoing #Techlash sentiments are evident in responses to #SVP fallout as tech bros beg for bailouts and other folks remind them that they’re supposed to be libertarians.

ChanPercochanperco
2023-01-04

"Le Techlash est sans doute un objet qui offre peu de prises pour amorcer une « véritable » critique de la technique..."
Enième chronique du « Techlash » via @MaisOuVaLeWeb@twitter.com maisouvaleweb.fr/enieme-chroni

2022-12-11

I was watching a webinar with Professor Neil Selwyn

“Rethinking Edtech for an age of climate climate”

and he used the word Techlash as a term for technology backlash. I had to stop watching because it was such a brilliant word. Here is the video
mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/92
I will go back to watching it once I have got used to the term techlash
#moodle #edtech #techlash

2022-11-24

Big Tech is not #leftist, it's #capitalist, you goons.

#techlash

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