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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. I think underlying slacktivism isn’t enough – you can’t just turn your profile green. Today, a China official said the internet is a new battlefield without gun powder. Even in China?

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. 20 There are no managers, only algorithms; no fellow workers, only avatars of competitors; no obvious points of contact or information. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access.

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