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Doxing: The boundaries of our privacy are blurring
Doxing has become the best weapon of the new age for some extreme or not clearly distinguishable fans to defend the rights of their idols. […]
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What You See Isn’t the Whole World: Platform Algorithms, Rules, and Our Lost Digital Sovereignty
In today’s platform-dominated digital age, we interact with algorithms almost daily. Open TikTok, and it instantly knows whether you want to laugh, cry, or watch cat videos. Scroll through YouTube, and it always finds a […]
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Is your information safe in the digital age?
Introduction Today is an era of rapid development of Internet technology and affecting every aspect of our lives profoundly. In some ways, we can say that the Internet has reconstructed our way of life. For […]
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Twitter’s New “X” Factor: Privacy, Security, and Digital Rights in the Musk Era
The world’s richest man, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” took control of a platform with hundreds of millions of users and brought about sweeping changes. (Reuters: Brian Snyder; Reuters: Carlos Barria ) The $8 […]
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Not Discrimination, Just Words? — The Hate Speech You Didn’t Even Notice
Image from Reddit, retrieved April 2025 Introduction Have you ever scrolled past a comment like this on social media:“ I have nothing against gay people—as long as they are not too in-your-face”, or “ My best friend is trans, […]
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Regional Hate Speech Issue: The Current Situation in China and Other Asian Countries
With the development of digital platforms, all digital platforms are facing governance challenges and need to maintain the Internet environment to make users feel safe and comfortable. As a public platform for speech, different interest […]
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Freedom of speech ≠ doing whatever you want: how to identify, regulate and reduce hate speech?
Introduction With the continuous development of the Internet, anyone can speak in the online world and pay almost nothing for their speech. With the simplification of speaking on online platforms, hate speech has exploded. Hate […]
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Fired by a Machine！
Fired by a Machine: How Amazon’s Algorithm Decides Who Loses Their Job Imagine waking up one day to find out you’ve been fired—not by your boss, not by HR, but by an algorithm. No phone […]
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“Big Data is Horrible!”
One of my friends and I often exclaimed “Big data is Horrible!” when we were speaking online. A common situation in social software is that when we talk about a topic, we can see the […]
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Facebook’s Opacity Dilemma
Introduction: Facebook’s Role and Impact in Modern Society As digital platforms become integral to our daily lives, Facebook has grown into the world’s largest social network. It has evolved far beyond being just an information […]