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Virginia Díez

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EN/ES Digital Commons | Communications at Open Future Foundation | PhD Candidate in Economics

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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“While courts can clarify the legal boundary conditions, questions about how machine-readable opt-outs function in practice are being taken up in standard-setting processes.”
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The paper looks at how generative AI is changing society, and how societies are using it to access, produce and value information. It points out two big risks to how knowledge is controlled. Read more ⬇️
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 25/06/2025
It will be great when we finally democratise higher education governance and we'll look back on this strange period where people from business were given control of our universities and then ran them into the ground.
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
La sociedad civil pide a la UE inversión en ecosistemas digitales abiertos, mejoras en la interoperabilidad, una nube y una web social independientes y basadas en protocolos abiertos.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🇪🇺 The EU's new digital policies are ambitious—but without substantial investment in public infrastructure and alternatives to Big Tech, they will remain merely aspirational. Read Zuzanna Warso's analysis of recent EU digital policy developments: openfuture.eu/blog/europe-...
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Europe Talks Digital Sovereignty – Open Future
The EU takes steps toward digital sovereignty with new policies, but success requires substantial investment in public digital infrastructure.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons". Read more ⬇️ openfuture.eu/publication/...
"Governing the scholarly AI Commons" report cover with Open Future background image.
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Reminder on EU's AI regulation: Innovation thrives in sunlight, not shadows.
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It is that informative time of the month. Subscribe to our newsletter ;)
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📱 We are building a public registry for openly licensed works. The first #CommonsDB newsletter features insights from @paulk.bsky.social and @posth.me on what is planned. Want more updates on the initiative? Subscribe to the newsletter: www.commonsdb.org/blog/commons...
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​​CommonsDB: A Foundation for Transparent Digital Rights Information
Funded by the European Commission, the CommonsDB initiative is building a prototype registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚀 The first #CommonsDB newsletter features insights from @paulk.bsky.social and @posth.me on building a public registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works. 📬 Don’t miss out—subscribe to get the next issue delivered straight to your inbox: www.commonsdb.org/blog/commons...
The CommonsDB website and newsletter have been released.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🛠️ Key takeaway from @ngicommons.bsky.social “Public Policies for Digital Commons” webinar: Open source software (OSS) is critical infrastructure, like roads & bridges. Read more and watch the discussion: openfuture.eu/event/public...
NGI Commons' recent webinar brought together experts to explore digital commons policies, sovereign tech funding, and the future of open source in Europe.
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“This report is a stark reminder of how the rhetoric of sovereignty can be co-opted by nationalist agendas that ultimately serve corporate giants rather than the public interest.”
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
While some have narrowed digital public infrastructure to identity-payments-data systems, DPI encompasses a broader range of systems and motivations, as recognized by growing literature and communities of practice. More on this paper by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"Over the years, expert after expert and organization after organization warned about the dangers of consolidating so much data in the hands of governments (and corporations)." - @zey.bsky.social
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Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To
What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How do you define #DigitalCommons and their relationship with #PublicDigitalInfrastructure? 📹 Watch this video presentation from @ngicommons.bsky.social at #FOSDEM: video.ngi.eu/w/8Je6q94Ugp... 📖 If you'd like to learn more, download @jankrewer.bsky.social 's report: openfuture.eu/publication/...
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NGI Commons at FOSDEM 2025: "Digital Commons as Pillars of Digital Sovereignty in Europe"
The Next Generation Internet PeerTube's instance is managed by the NGI Outreach office for the European Commission. #NGI4eu #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #EU
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Definitely not ready for the Broligarchy.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We're delighted to welcome @culturedoug.bsky.social to Open Future as our Senior Open Content Specialist. He will lead our CommonsDB project, developing an EU Registry of Public Domain and open-licensed works. openfuture.eu/blog/meet-do... #OpenGLAM #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure
Doug McCarthy, Senior Open Content Specialist at Open Future
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🛜 Interested in #DigitalCommons? Our monthly newsletter brings you updates on #PublicDigitalInfrastructure, #PublicAI, #CopyrightInfrastructure, and more. 💌 Our first issue of the year is out! Take a look and subscribe to get future editions straight to your inbox: mailchi.mp/openfuture/e...
Open Future Newsletter
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Civio @civio.es · 30/01/2025
Nuestro recurso ya está en manos del Tribunal Supremo 🏛️ ¿Puede la administración negarse a revelar cómo funcionan los programas que deciden sobre nuestros derechos? ¿Y alegar la propiedad intelectual como excusa? Defendemos que no y estos son nuestros argumentos. civio.es/novedades/2025…
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La transparencia de los algoritmos públicos, en juego: Civio presenta el recurso sobre BOSCO ante el Tribunal Supremo
¿Puede la administración negarse a revelar cómo funcionan los programas que deciden sobre nuestros derechos? ¿Y hacerlo alegando la propiedad intelectual como excusa? Defendemos que no, y el Alto…
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🔎 Openness stands as a fundamental principle, with emphasis on defining openness and transparency in AI systems. Check our work with DPGA, GIZ, Mozilla, Digital Futures Lab, University of Pretoria or IT for change to know more about this topic: openfuture.eu/publication/...
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Democratizing AI for the Public Good – Open Future
This policy brief considers open-source AI as a digital public good and provides recommendations for progressing toward AI democratization and accelerating the attainment of the SDGs.
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El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 24/01/2025
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo.
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Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie ha empezado a defender las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo. El joven, llamado Serapio Domínguez y natural de Zaragoza, l...
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Biblioteca General Universitaria Reina Sofía @bursofia.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Estamos preparando las maletas de X... bursofia.tumblr.com/post/7732007...
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🔧 Global chip shortages during COVID-19 led to massive investments to secure semiconductor supply chains. As geopolitical tensions rise, the EU and China explore #OpenSourceHardware as a path to digital sovereignty. Read Jan Krewer's analysis: openfuture.eu/blog/free-ch... #DigitalCommons
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Free Chips? Collaboration vs. Sovereignty in EU’s Industrial Strategy – Open Future
Analysis of the EU's challenge in balancing digital sovereignty with openness in its industrial strategy, focusing on reducing dependence on foreign semiconductors.
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 15/01/2025
🎉 It is our birthday! On this day in 2001, Wikipedia was launched. Over two decades later, it has become one of the largest and most trusted sources of knowledge on the internet, with 63+ million articles in 300+ languages. Read all about the history of Wikipedia ➡️ w.wiki/KYn
Birthday cake adorned with the Wikipedia puzzle globe logo. Text says: Happy birthday to Wikipedia! Thank you to the nearly 260,000 volunteer editors that contribute to Wikipedia every month.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@paulk.bsky.social analyzes @joinmastodon.org.web.brid.gy and @freeourfeeds.com initiatives aimed at creating social media infrastructure that serves the public interest. #DigitalCommons #TheParadoxOfOpen openfuture.eu/blog/publicl...
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Publicly Governed Infrastructure is the Key to Sustainable Social Media – Open Future
Recent developments in decentralized social media signal a pivotal shift away from corporate-controlled platforms.
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Yat, Yi , Saam, Sei, Ng, Luk, Tsaat, Baat, Gau, Sap 🥋🙏 @marrana.bsky.social
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 07/01/2025
Descentralización: ¿en qué se diferencian Mastodon y Bluesky de las redes sociales que hemos conocido antes? ¿por qué es importante? Lo contaba @elenadesus.bsky.social en este reportaje en septiembre. ctxt.es/es/20240901/...
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Otras formas de estar en Internet
Expertos y usuarios debaten sobre los cambios en X y las alternativas descentralizadas como Mastodon o Bluesky
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🎉 Join the 2025 #PublicDomain celebrations on January 9! @paulk.bsky.social and @posth.me will present the upcoming EU Repository of PD and open-licensed works, alongside experts from @communia.bsky.social @creativecommons.bsky.social and other leading voices. Program: meemoo.be/en/training-...
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Public Domain Day in Europe
Mark your calendars for 9 January 2025, when the annual Public Domain Day is taking place in collaboration with international partners. More information will be available soon!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/01/2025
🎥 Remix creative works like THE SKELETON DANCE for our 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest!⁠ ⁠ Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.⁠ ⁠ 📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025⁠ 💰 First prize: $1,500⁠ 👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Gracias a un dato por defecto en telegram, hoy he recibido más felicitaciones de falso cumpleaños que de año nuevo. ¿Alguien más?
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Jaime Crespo @jynus.com · 01/01/2025
Public Domain Day 2025: Rediscovering Masterpieces in a New Light diff.wikimedia.org/2025/01/01/p...
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Public Domain Day 2025: Rediscovering Masterpieces in a New Light
Every year on 1 January, the Wikimedia communities celebrate Public Domain Day – the day on which artistic works become free to use once their copyright protection ends. Starting today, many n…
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Climática @climatica.coop · 31/12/2024
Desde Climática te proponemos que regales diferente y, sobre todo, coherente. Por eso, te proponemos que regales ¡periodismo climático!✨ climatica.coop/kiosco
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
💡Interesante encuesta sobre #empresassociales. Quizás no es tanto que entidades sin ánimo de lucro o proyectos con fines sociales paguen menos, sino fomentar que las grandes corporaciones paguen MÁS.
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Carlos del Castillo @cdelcastillo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Bueno, pues este reportaje sobre cómo los malos aprovechan nuestros sesgos cognitivos para estafarnos y los trucos para evitarlo ha sido finalista de los premios ESET de Periodismo y Seguridad Informática 🥳 Enhorabuena a @lacort.bsky.social y @marilink.net, a los que leo mucho y también han 🏆 y 🏅
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Frena la sensación de urgencia: así hackean tu mente los ciberestafadores y los trucos para evitarlo
Los timos informáticos se multiplican en España apoyados en robos de datos y avances técnicos, pero siguen aprovechando los mismos sesgos cognitivos para engañar a sus víctimas
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marilink @marilink.net · 12/12/2024
Este reportaje sobre la IA de Madrid para las enfermedades raras me acaba de dejar finalista en los Premios ESET de Divulgación y Periodismo en Seguridad Informática (¡gracias!) www.newtral.es/sermas-gpt-i...
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Sermas GPT, la IA de Madrid para enfermedades raras, no ha pasado la validación de un comité médico
A 6 meses de su uso en pacientes reales, Sermas GPT, la IA de la Comunidad de Madrid aún no ha pasado la validación de un comité de ética médica. Tiene sesgos sexistas y racistas.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🤫 Do trade secrets really stand in the way of meaningful AI training data transparency? Find out why such claims are misleading in this new analysis by Maximilian Gahntz & Zuzanna Warso. openfuture.eu/blog/advanci... #EUAIAct #AITransparency #AIEthics
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Advancing Training Data Transparency in the EU AI Act – Open Future
While the EU AI Act is the most significant opportunity to advance AI transparency, this analysis argues what information should be disclosed in a
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Entusiasmada con mi primera sesión dentro del programa de doctorado en Economía de @economicasuva.bsky.social. No podía haber un comienzo mejor que la conferencia de esta tarde con @psalasr.bsky.social sobre “desigualdades heredadas”. ¡Gracias!
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Estudio de #FECYT desgrana los malestares y violencias digitales que sufren quienes investigan y divulgan sobre ciencia. Las mujeres, las más atacadas. Lo cuenta Eduardo Robaina en @climatica.bsky.social. climatica.coop/campana-de-o...
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Campañas de odio por divulgar ciencia: «Me identificaron los grupos antivacunas y atacaron mi perfil. Me borré de todas las redes sociales» - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
Un estudio de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) concluye que el 51,05% de las personas encuestadas admite haber sufrido insultos o mensajes amenazantes. Los ataques de odio...
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Un día los líderes de estos proyectos institucionales hablarán más de bien común o de infraestructuras públicas digitales para la ciudadanía que de «empresas». Atención a los siguientes pasos. Ojalá vayan hacia esa soberanía tecnológica tan necesaria, con buenos procesos de gobernanza.
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communia @communia.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
¿Qué pasa en España? Spain has recently put forward a draft proposal to introduce extended collective licensing (ECL) for the development of general-purpose AI models. Our comments by Teresa Nobre on the Draft and its intersections with DSM Articles 3&4: communia-association.org/2024/12/10/a...
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A first look at the Spanish proposal to introduce ECL for AI training
A few weeks ago, the Spanish Ministry of Culture released a legislative proposal aimed at introducing extended collective licensing (ECL) for the development of general-purpose AI models. The first of...
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/12/2024
The burden of catching malware or adware should not be placed on the consumer. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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One Down, Many to Go with Pre-Installed Malware on Android
Last year, we investigated a Dragon Touch children’s tablet (KidzPad Y88X 10) and confirmed that it was linked to a string of fully compromised Android TV Boxes that also had multiple reports of malwa...
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Marta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This was a phenomenal conversation about the dissolution of the planetary scale social network. Dear @reckless.bsky.social you are my sunshine but we need to talk about your aversion to Linux one day. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Leaving X? Where Next? On Bluesky, Threads and the “Fediverse”
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 11/25/2024 · 1h 5m
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Se está quedando un finde de lecturas variadito ✨
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Esto sobre extractivismo de datos/contenidos y usurpación de la agencia de personas usuarias en X (y otras rrss). Se viene batalla legal con la autoría y la propiedad en el centro.
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Demonopolizing the European Public Domain” is a new report produced with ILP Lab. It examines Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive, and how they affect the #PublicDomain and European libraries' collections. 📥 Read or download: openfuture.eu/publication/...
Demonopolizing the European Public Domain Report cover with an Open Future branded background.
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Virginia Díez @vdiez.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Me gusta mucho que en la pestaña de respuestas de BlueSky se visualice el post original. He vuelto a esto unas cuantas veces y ya no puedo contener el reposteo o como se llame. Que esto nunca sea como tuiper.
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Blogdehistoria @blogdhistoria.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Acabo de ver en la Zlibrary (sigue viva. El dominio bueno es el que acaba en .gs), que no puedes descargar un libro por la queja del titular del copyright Un libro de Cánovas del Castillo/de 1888/Que ya es de dominio público por tener 100 años ¿Se ha comunicado por la ouija? ¿En espíritu?
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Carlos del Castillo @cdelcastillo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Nvidia ya es la empresa más valiosa del mundo. Más que Apple, Amazon o Google. Jensen Huang es su CEO. No es un Steve Jobs, ni un Zuckerberg, ni un Gates, ni un Altman, ni un Musk. Es un Jensen Huang. Es el que está dando forma a una revolución: “Generaremos IA como generamos electricidad” 🧵
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/11/2024
“Social media business models are extractive and exploitative. But we can’t fix our societies by fixing social media. I think that we have to deal with hate in the offline world.” -Read our latest Speaking Freely interview with South African human rights defender Anriette Esterhuysen here:
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Speaking Freely: Anriette Esterhuysen
Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking trailblazer from South Africa. She has pioneered the use of Internet and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to promote social ju...
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