Y desde el punto de vista de la regulación que rige el comportamiento de estas empresas, prácticamente nada ha cambiado desde 2016. Thus, Section 230c, “Protection for ‘Good Samaritan’ blocking and screening of offensive material,” was written to encourage nascent firms to protect users and prevent illegal activity without incurring massive content-management costs. In 1931, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin accused the principal newspaper barons of the day, Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere, of “aiming at … power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.” (The phrase was his cousin Rudyard Kipling’s.) Niall Ferguson Los orígenes de las finanzas : las innovaciones que crearon los modernos mercados de capítales / coord. It is that the same was true in 2016 and, despite a great many fine words and some minor pieces of legislation, Americans did nothing about it. Niall Ferguson, a historian, author, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins Scott to discuss the state of play around the tech war between the U.S. and China. I am even open to the theory that the whole story is bunk, the emails fake, and the laptop and its hard-drive an infowars gift from Russia, with love. “Niall Ferguson’s Networld” from PBS is a look at the rise of online social networks like Facebook and Twitter, but it also explores the same principles that are … ... Como muestra el libro, las plataformas como Twitter o … Archivado en: Twitter; It has measurably reduced the prices of innumerable products as well as rendering shopping in bricks-and-mortar stores an obsolescent activity. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. The number of U.S. Facebook users was 240 million in 2019, more than 72% of the population. U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday used his first big appearance on the global stage - a "virtual visit" to Europe - … Andy Stone, the former Democratic Party staffer who is now Facebook’s policy communications manager, announced that his company would be “reducing” the “distribution” of the Post story. An antitrust action against Amazon is doomed. Según Niall Ferguson, es una política complicada, ... No está en Twitter, ni en Facebook, ni en Google, ni en Youtube. Niall Ferguson, an Economic historian and senior fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution, looks at President Donald Trump's legacy and … The top U.S. tech companies are now among the biggest businesses on earth by market capitalization. Half that time is on Facebook. I don’t know if Biden’s son Hunter tried to broker such a meeting as part of his board directorship deal with Pozharskyi’s firm, Burisma Holdings. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. But if you write something that falls afoul of their content-moderation rules and duly vanishes from the internet, they’ll cite Section 230 again: Hey, we’re a private company, the First Amendment doesn’t apply to us. He’s upset about being challenged This article is more than 1 year old. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. Official Trailer | Niall Ferguson’s Networld | PBS, Niall Ferguson’s Networld premieres March 17 @ 8ET, ©2021 Niall Ferguson. And, contemplating the close links between Silicon Valley and Senator Kamala Harris, I see little prospect of progress — other than down the antitrust cul-de-sac — if she is elected vice president next month. At a lecture at Georgetown University in October 2019, Zuckerberg pledged “to continue to stand for free expression” and against an “ever-expanding definition of what speech is harmful.” But even Facebook has had to ramp up the censorship this year. Days later, Facebook was pressured into taking down 88 Trump campaign ads that used an inverted red triangle (a Nazi symbol) to attack antifa, the far-left movement. There was uproar at Facebook when chief executive Mark Zuckerberg declined to follow Twitter’s lead. On the other, the network platforms arbitrarily intervene when a legitimate article triggers the hate-speech-spotting algorithms and the content-moderating grunts. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. El historiador escocés Niall Ferguson sabe bien de lo que habla. Facebook, Twitter, Google can’t be good censors of politics, Niall Ferguson says Silicon Valley didn't just play a highly questionable role in the 2020 US elections but also in 2016 and Americans did nothing about it. In August, Facebook removed a group with nearly 200,000 members “for repeatedly posting content that violated our policies.” The group promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is broadly pro-Trump. Second, we need to impose the equivalent of First Amendment obligations on the network platforms, recognizing that they are too dominant a part of the public sphere to be able to regulate access to it on the basis of their own privately determined and almost certainly skewed “community standards.”. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle. Sustaining journalism of this quality needs smart and thinking people like you to pay for it. In May, Twitter attached a health warning to one of President Trump’s Tweets. Niall Ferguson, uno de los grandes historiadores de nuestra época, parece tener algunas respuestas. Google accounts for 88% of the U.S. search-engine market, and 95% of all mobile searches. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. The common thread underlying the riots, COVID, China, Twitter and Trump From Ukraine to Syria to … He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. Y habla de muchas cosas: ... En Twitter le siguen 151.000 personas y se unió a la gran red social en junio de 2009. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. “How vain and oblivious does that sound now? In the opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy likened internet platforms to “the modern public square,” arguing that it was therefore unconstitutional to prevent even sex offenders from accessing, and expressing opinions, on social-network platforms. Even the much less trusted Facebook (according to polls) will be hard to dismantle, without a complete transformation of the way the courts apply competition law. Remember the “good censor”? Niall Ferguson 18 October, 2020 8:41 pm IST. The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast is on a mission to stay on top of what's happening with everything Bitcoin, guiding listeners through the major stories shaping the price, philosophy and community around the financial revolution. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. In 2019, the average American spent 6 hours and 35 minutes a day using digital media, more than television, radio and print put together. Yet half-hearted and ill-considered attempts by the companies to regulate themselves better have led to legitimate complaints that they are restricting free speech. It’s free, for heaven’s sake. But there has been mission creep. The remarkable thing is not that Silicon Valley is playing a highly questionable role in the election of 2020. He is an actor and writer, known for Niall Ferguson's Networld (2020), The Fight of Our Lives: Defeating the Ideological War Against the West (2018) and Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003). The surely unintended result is that some of the biggest companies in the world today are utilities when they are acting as publishers, but publishers when acting as utilities, in a way rather reminiscent of Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22.”. Google has been doing the same sort of thing. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. In other words, despite being private companies, the big tech companies have a public function. – Bloomberg, Also read: Over 13 million Americans cast early votes in 2020 US election, Democrats leading trend, Subscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram, Why news media is in crisis & How you can fix it. Diego Sánchez de la Cruz Seguir a diegodelacruz Asimismo es profesor del Jesus College, de la Universidad de Oxford, y de la Hoover Institution, de … The Trump Show Is No Cabaret, A 12-Step Guide to Staying Sane During the…, My crystal ball missed Brexit but got Donald…. Well, it’s the morning after the free speech party, and the place is trashed.”. Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He has been married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali since September 10, … Here’s how Catch-22 works. For years, of course, the big technology companies have filtered out child pornography and (less successfully) terrorist propaganda. Also read: US election sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from few super-rich donors. “I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, told the New York Times in 2017. The core problem is not a lack of competition in Silicon Valley. Site by Paper Tiger, America Will Achieve Herd Immunity to Trumpism. Cue years of antitrust actions that will enrich a great many lawyers and have minimal consequences for competition, like the ultimately failed attempt 20 years ago to prevent Microsoft from dominating software. The conclusion? You would think it was still the 1990s — as if this contest will be decided by debates on television, newspaper endorsements or stump speeches, and accurately predicted by opinion polls. In reality, as I argued then, only two reforms will fix this godawful mess. By Niall Ferguson Tech vs Trump: the great battle of our time has begun In the 1962 Japanese sci-fi classic King Kong vs Godzilla, the two giant monsters fight to a stalemate atop Mount Fuji. Niall Ferguson Pandemics, Debts, Inflation and Bitcoin It’s a real privilege and honour to share with you Part 1 of our discussion with Niall Ferguson, one the world’s greatest historians, authors and commentators. 350-363 It’s a real privilege and honour to share with you Part 1 of our discussion with Niall Ferguson, one the world’s greatest historians, authors and commentators. In addition to writing a regular column for Bloomberg Opinion, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. The bottom line is that the good censors are not very good and the new governors can’t even govern themselves. (Start with Yevgeny Zamyatin’s astonishingly prescient “We.”), The lowliest employees of big tech companies — the content moderators whose job it is to spot bad stuff online — offer a rather different perspective. 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Su trabajo está marcadamente orientado hacia las finanzas y, siempre, con una clara vo Niall Quinn suggests that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is already making excuses ahead of Manchester United's Europa League clash with Real Sociedad. The … Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. por William N. Goetzmann , K. Geert Rouwenhorst , 2006, ISBN 84-89378-51-7, págs. It states: In essence, Section 230 gave and still gives websites immunity from liability for what their users post (under-filtering), but it also protects them when they choose to remove content (over-filtering). We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. ThePrint has the finest young reporters, columnists and editors working for it. “I was wrong about that.” Indeed, he was. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I don’t know if, as the New York Post alleged last week, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden met with a Ukrainian energy executive named Vadym Pozharskyi in 2015. Earlier this month, the company deleted all QAnon accounts from its platforms. “Remember ‘We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party’?” one of them asked Alex Feerst of OneZero last year, alluding to an early Twitter slogan. In 2015, Twitter added a new line to its rules that barred promoting “violence against others … on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, or disability.” Repeatedly throughout the Trump presidency — for example, after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 — there have been further modifications to the platforms’ terms of service and “community standards,” as well as to their non-public content moderation policies. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. As I contemplate the under-covered and overmighty role that Big Tech continues to play in the American political process, I don’t see good censors. His unique impressions are both moving and surprising — even to him. “Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook each possess significant market power over large swaths of our economy. Quite apart from the bountiful campaign contributions Harris and the rest of Democratic Party elite receive from Big Tech, they have no problem at all with Facebook, Twitter and company seeking to kill stories like Huntergate. On the one hand, conspiracy theories such as Plandemic flourish on Facebook and elsewhere. He is a fellow of … Niall Ferguson (Glasgow, 1964) es uno de los historiadores más preeminentes de su generación. Adults spend an average of 75 minutes of each day on social media. I see big, bad harlots. Disinformation fight begins. Niall Ferguson: "Debe preocuparnos más una guerra religiosa que la III Guerra Mundial" ... pero, en fin, en 1914 o 1939 no existía Facebook ni Twitter. If one of the platforms hosts content that is mendacious, defamatory or in some other way harmful, and you sue, the Big Tech lawyers will cite Section 230: Hey, we’re just a tech company, it’s not our malicious content. Good luck, too, with breaking up Google. To such proposals, Big Tech lawyers respond by lamenting that they would massively increase their clients’ legal liabilities. 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He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. That is the whole idea. But the news media is in a crisis of its own. Descargar libro CIVILIZACIÓN EBOOK del autor NIALL FERGUSON (ISBN 9788499921648) en PDF o EPUB completo al MEJOR PRECIO MÉXICO, leer online gratis opiniones y comentarios de Casa del Libro México In recent few years, these ideas have won growing support — and not only among Republican legislators such as Senator Josh Hawley. There is no need to detail all the occasions in recent years when mostly right-leaning content was censored, buried far down the search results, or “demonetized.” The key point is that, in the absence of a coherent reform of the way the network platforms are themselves governed, there has been a dysfunctional tug-of-war between the platforms’ spasmodic and not wholly sincere efforts to “fix” themselves and the demands of outside actors (ranging from the German government to groups of left-wing activists) for more censorship of whatever they deem to be “hate speech.”, At the same time, the founding generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, most of whom had libertarian inclinations, have repeatedly yielded to internal pressure from their younger employees, schooled in the modern campus culture of “no-platforming” any individuals whose ideas they consider “unsafe.” In the words of Brian Amerige, whose career at Facebook ended not long after he created a “FB’ers for Political Diversity” group, the company’s employees “are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left‑leaning ideology.”, The net result seems to be the worst of both worlds. Every other part of what we call the media — newspapers, magazines, even cable TV — is now subordinated to them. In recent years, each company has expanded and exploited their power of the marketplace in anticompetitive ways.”. In the past 10 months, I’ve read as many op-ed articles and reports about this election as I can stand. In an internal presentation in March 2018, Google executives were asked to imagine their company acting as a “Good Censor,” in order to limit the impact of users “behaving badly.”, In a 2016 internal video, Nick Foster, Google’s head of design, envisioned a “goal-driven ledger” of all users’ data, endowed with its own “volition or purpose,” which would nudge us to take decisions (say, about shopping or travel) that would “reflect Google’s values as an organization.”, If that doesn’t strike you as weird — like dialogue from some dystopian science-fiction novel — then you need to read more dystopian science fiction. Ltd. All rights reserved. I…, A Craving for Normalcy Spells the End of…, Bitcoin Is Winning the Covid-19 Monetary Revolution, History’s Lesson for Biden: Stuff Happens, ‘Weimar America’? Instead, both Facebook and Twitter made a decision to try to kill the Post’s scoop. (Actually, make that the 1960s. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. Twitter barred its users from sharing it not only with followers but also through direct messages, locking the accounts of people — including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany — who retweeted it. Niall Ferguson’s Networld (8 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) - All three parts of this special event on misinformation air tonight. Antitrust actions address none of them. The effects on the democratic process, not only in the U.S. but all over the world, have been deeply destabilizing. And there are network effects on the internet that can’t be wished away by judges. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization, The Great Degeneration, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, and The Square and the Tower.He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, … Reuters Now Biden tells G7 leaders U.S. will 're-engage' Posted . The show will also feature brief … Consumers love the company. What I do know is that if I read the story online and found it compelling, I should have been able to share it with friends. Niall Ferguson is a historian who was born and raised in Scotland, studied and taught at Oxford and now lives in the United States. Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. Far from addressing the glaring problems created by the rise of the network platforms that now dominate the American (and indeed the global) public sphere, we largely decided to shut our eyes and ears to them. This is not an isolated incident. Copyright © 2020 Printline Media Pvt. Unfortunately, this sea change has come too late for root-and-branch reform to be enacted under the Trump administration. Take the Quiz Facts & Sources Transcript Study Guide. Meanwhile, in Packingham v. North Carolina (2017), the Supreme Court overturned a state law that banned sex offenders from using social media. First, we need to repeal or significantly amend Section 230, making the network platforms legally liable for the content they host, and leaving the rest to the courts. In 2017, two-thirds of American adults said they got news from social media sites. Niall Ferguson: America's Global Retreat Never mind the Fed's taper, it's the U.S. geopolitical taper that is stirring world anxiety. The answer lies in the history of American internet regulation — to be precise, in section 230 of the 1934 Communications Act, as amended by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which was enacted after a New York court held the online service provider Prodigy liable for a user’s defamatory posts. India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. All Rights Reserved. And I am pretty doubtful that the meeting, if indeed it happened, was the reason Biden demanded that the Ukrainian government fire its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma. Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. Either way, it’s the wrong answer. You have entered an incorrect email address! In the words of Judge Alex Kozinski in Fair Housing Council v. Roommate.com (2008), “the Internet has outgrown its swaddling clothes and no longer needs to be so gently coddled.” He was referring to Section 230, which gives the tech giants a now-indefensible advantage over traditional publishers, while at the same time empowering them to act as censors. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. Not only do the big tech companies dominate ad revenue, they drive the news cycle. The idea was to split the difference between publisher’s liability, which would have stunted the growth of the fledgling internet, and complete lack of curation, which would have led to a torrent of filth. It is that the network platforms are now the public sphere. Previously, a company that managed content was classified as a publisher, and subject to civil liability — creating a perverse incentive not to manage content at all. … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist) Niall Ferguson, Actor: Niall Ferguson's Networld. Another influential way of describing the network platforms is as the “New Governors.” That creeps me out the way Zuckerberg’s admiration of Augustus Caesar creeps me out. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. A Pew study showed that, at the end of 2019, 18% of them relied primarily on social media for political news. A bit of both, I suspect. No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. But their size is not the important thing about them. Earlier this month, the House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee released the findings of its 16-month long investigation into Big Tech. How did we arrive at this state of affairs — when such important components of the public sphere could operate solely with regard to their own profitability as attention merchants? Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared headed to a decisive win in the Democratic presidential caucuses in Nevada Saturday. Between them, Google and Facebook captured a combined 60% of U.S. digital-ad spending in 2018. The platforms will finally discover that there are risks to being a publisher and responsibilities that come with near-universal usage. If the network platforms are the modern public square, then it cannot be their responsibility to remove “hateful content” (as 19 prominent civil rights groups demanded of Facebook in October 2017) because hateful content — unless it explicitly instigates violence against a specific person — is protected by the First Amendment. He is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Is it stupidity or venality that has convinced America’s legislators that antitrust is the answer to the problem of Big Tech? Niall Ferguson. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. Facebook, Twitter, Google can’t be good censors of politics, Niall Ferguson says Silicon Valley didn't just play a highly questionable role in the 2020 US elections but also in 2016 and Americans did nothing about it. Niall Ferguson: "El internet progre está en crisis tras el auge de Trump" El historiador escocés presenta su nuevo libro, La plaza y la torre. Niall Ferguson was born on April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Kevin Roose’s work on the conservative dominance of Facebook shared content is an honorable exception.) Facebook. (As one of them described the process, “I was like, ‘I can just block this entire domain, and they won’t be able to serve ads on it?’ And the answer was, ‘Yes.’ I was like, ‘But … I’m in my mid-twenties.’”). The public has been directed down a series of blind alleys: not only antitrust, but also net neutrality and an inchoate notion of tighter regulation. In June, it excluded the website ZeroHedge from its ad platform because of “violations” in the comments sections of stories about Black Lives Matter. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. ... Share on Twitter; Share via Email ‘For Niall Ferguson…
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