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Media Bits and Bytes – All Hands on Deck Edition

Net Neutrality: act now!; Google joins the military industrial complex; Robots profiling; Net neutrality – the stakes; Chicago goes 1984; Trump and Twitter in the courts

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The Path to Victory on Net Neutrality in the House of Representatives and How You Can Help

By Ernesto Falcon
May 18, 2018
Electronic Frontier Foundation

You need to tell your House member to “sign the discharge petition on net neutrality.”

Google's March to the Business of War Must Be Stopped

By Lucy Suchman, Lilly Irani and Peter Asaro
May 16, 2018
The Guardian

We stand with thousands of Google employees, demanding an end to its contract with the US Department of Defense.

 

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This Startup’s Racial-Profiling Algorithm Shows AI Can Be Dangerous Way Before Any Robot Apocalypse

By Dave Gershgorn
May 23, 2018
Quartz

Making it far easier for anyone with access to surveillance cameras to flag people based on ethnicity, would encourage overt racial profiling without even the guise of assisting police investigations.

For Marginalized Communities, Net Neutrality is About Way More Than Netflix

By Andrew Wyrich
May 26, 2018
The Daily Dot

A repeal means severe consequences—but activists aren’t going down easy.

Can 30,000 Cameras Help Solve Chicago’s Crime Problem?

By Timothy Williams
May 26, 2018
New York Times

Armed with advanced gadgets and mapping, officers can get to crime scenes “in time to see the guy still shooting.” But what does it mean for residents’ privacy?

What the @RealDonaldTrump Ruling Actually Means

By Garrett Epps
May 24, 2018
The Atlantic

The judge’s reasoning was clever and nuanced—but the case is hardly a slam-dunk.