Hi all,
Attached is Kirsten, Kyle, Whitney and Julia’s project on the Big 3 in Canadian telecommunications. The sources used in our project are below.
The “cloud” has come to mean the storing and accessing of data (including programs) over the internet rather than on on our device (computer, phone or otherwise). The official definition of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of […] Read More
Hi all,
Attached is Kirsten, Kyle, Whitney and Julia’s project on the Big 3 in Canadian telecommunications. The sources used in our project are below.
Hi Everyone,
Please find attached my paper on whether the CRTC RT decision would survive an appeal. RT can appeal the CRTC under s.31(1) of the Broadcasting Act, or bring a Charter challenge regarding freedom of expression. Using the post-Vavilov framework, I believe the CRTC decision would likely survive all of these challenges. Let me know what you think.
FinalPaper_Law 424_Deniz Ozensoy
Best,
Deniz
Amazon banned some Twitch streams that were promoting Russian propaganda. They are removing streams providing information Russian Misinformation. Amazon claims that the number of harmful streams is low and they have been removed. The story was brought forward by the Tech Transparency Project. Both articles can be found below.
https://www.ft.com/content/ff2bfc46-6cda-43a2-9db2-c912c986ce77
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/amazon-owned-twitch-spreading-russian-misinformation-ukraine
– Seb
Hi everyone,
I saw this in the news this week and thought it’d be interesting to share. The federal government has introduced legislation that would require platforms like Facebook and Google to compensate news organizations for the profits they make off of having their news content on their platform. Bill C-18 will require the CRTC to decide which outlets qualify to receive a share of the profits. Apparently, 450 private news outlets have closed down in the last year as internet giants eat up 80% of their online ad revenue. This bill is designed to help struggling news organizations but a lot of the details remain murky. There are concerns these internet giants will tweak their algorithms to privilege certain news outlets over others in an attempt to continue to maximize their profits. The minister in charge of this file has stated that there are fines worked into the bill that the CRTC could utilize to prevent a situation like this. It will be interesting to see how this bill will be applied if it becomes law.
To read more about the bill check out the news story below:
– Amit Chandi
I found a recent article about how Bill C-11 may negatively impact Youtube creators income. This is because “the proposed legislation that would force YouTube and other streaming platforms to actively promote Canadian content risks downgrading the popularity of that same content abroad.”
In the article, Geist says proposed law, known as Bill C-11, would make platforms including YouTube and TikTok “force-feed Canadian content” that people might not usually choose to watch, rather than curated content matched to their preferences.
You can give it a read here: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/youtube-warns-federal-bill-could-hit-digital-creators-earnings-from-abroad-1.5835119#:~:text=Geist%20says%20proposed%20law%2C%20known,content%20matched%20to%20their%20preferences.
– Madison Dutkiewicz
Hello All,
I found another interesting read regarding anonymity on online platforms and whether regulations should be put in place to stop anonymous internet users. This article discusses the pros and cons of allowing anonymous users and why ultimately, regulating anonymous users would not be beneficial.
You can find the article here: https://theconversation.com/ending-online-anonymity-wont-make-social-media-less-toxic-172228
– Madison Dutkiewicz
Hi guys!
I found an interesting article about recent litigation Zoom was in for customer security and privacy! It was back in late 2021, but I thought it was really interesting!
You can find the article linked here: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/zoom-agrees-to-85m-settlement-in-litigation-over-privacy-and-zoombombings
Here is the article: https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-nft-gripnr-blockchain-dnd-ttrpg-1848686984?
How the service will work is as follows:
“To sum up: Players will buy a pre-generated D&D character, play with it in pre-generated adventures, level it up on the blockchain, and then sell it. It sounds like easy money, right? You’ll get paid to play your favorite game.”
The article also neatly summarizes the problem with something like this.
“The problem that Doucet sees with many of these blockchain-based games is that they are “play to earn” models rather than a “play and earn” model. With play to earn, you are playing with the primary objective of getting an item of value (in this case NFTs), instead of for the pleasure of playing itself, and receiving items as a bonus for your time.” In short, the NFT does not add anything to the actual gameplay itself other than the promise of additional, ephemeral value being added onto their NFT-characters. Other than the looming problem of copyright (the owners of D&D publications are famously litigious), the NFT operation have also discovered significant liability for fraud, where players can construct fake campaigns to tack on additional value. Of course, there is always the spectre of the environmental impact and the dreadful inclination to monetize everything under the sun. I’ve played D&D and other TTRPGs for almost half a decade now, and one of the greatest attractions of the games have always been to have them as a conduit for getting together with other people. By monetizing the endeavour, it erases the very purpose of the game itself.
– Uma Wu
I honestly am struggling with this, but somehow these articles are not an April Fool’s joke:
MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/
Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems
Surreal as this may sound, there is, actually, a Crypto company, with real employees, who have built a handheld “Orb,” which they are bringing around the world, scanning the retinas of as many people they can, in exchange for vouchers for their proprietary cryptocurrency. Their actual goal is to distribute their currency equally to everyone on Earth, and they have come to the conclusion that the best way to do so is through retinal scans, to make sure no one gets their basic amount twice.
If that seems far-fetched to you, you’re not alone. The MIT article points out some very sketchy parts of their plan, and the privacy concerns involved.