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Sex Workers Are at the Forefront of the Fight Against Mass Surveillance and Big Tech

The normalization of facial recognition technology and mass surveillance being used to target marginalized communities, whether in the hopes of "saving them" or not, is dangerous.

By Erin Taylor

Why Reddit Banned Conversations About Killing Boys, But Not About Killing Women

After Reddit announced an updated policy on content restriction last month, it quickly became clear that some subreddits wouldn't be able to exist under the new regulations. Following the announcement, we took a stab at projecting which subreddits would soon be gone. It turns out that we were pretty close—eight of the 13 Reddit communities on our list are now banned or separated.

By Sage Lazzaro

Mahbod Moghadam: Who's Really Benefiting When We Censor Terrorists (and Ourselves)?

On the day of the news of James Foley’s beheading, I was very sad. I thought he looked so brave,

By Mahbod Moghadam

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