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Link Taxes and Upload Filters Will Not Fix the Internet

January 22, 2019 by The IotL Magazine 1 Comment

Big technology companies are not particularly worried about the link tax. YouTube and Facebook are the only companies in the position to use upload filters and they could start selling them to other smaller European platforms. [Read more…] about Link Taxes and Upload Filters Will Not Fix the Internet

Filed Under: #Technology Matters, More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: commons, democracy, link tax, upload filters

Valletta and Our Common Good: Biċċerija, Valletta Design Cluster

January 20, 2019 by Josephine Burden Leave a Comment

Unlike Is-Suq, immediate neighbours of Valletta Design Cluster appear to be on-side and look forward to the proposed open access roof garden and possibility of finding artists on their doorsteps.

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Filed Under: More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: commons, European Capital Of Culture, Valletta

Asylum Seekers: Burden, Cheap Labour or … Human Beings?

January 19, 2019 by Daiva Repečkaitė Leave a Comment

The asylum applicants are met with two contradictory demands: to be traumatised and persecuted enough to be recognised as refugees, and to be physically and emotionally fit in order to contribute to the host country’s economy.

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Filed Under: More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: employment, exploitation, Labour, migrants, migration, refugees

‘Safe City Malta’: Is Privacy the Real Crux of the Matter?

January 16, 2019 by Francois Zammit Leave a Comment

Apart from privacy, the Safe City Malta project raises a number of issues that must be addressed by the Maltese authorities: Who will be storing the data? What will be done with the data? Who will be monitoring the data?

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Filed Under: #Technology Matters, More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: AI, algorithms, facial recognition, mass surveillance, technology

‘Deserving’ vs ‘Undeserving’: Refugees vs Economic Migrants

January 15, 2019 by Daiva Repečkaitė Leave a Comment

Suffering seems to be an obligatory justification to enter Europe. In a fairer and more balanced system, economic migrants would have not had to take a perilous journey just to find work. But if trauma is the expectation, they get traumatised, too.

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Filed Under: More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: human rights, migration, poverty, social justice

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