November 30, 2020 by Ethics In Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Silicon Valley tech giants Facebook and YouTube have allowed themselves to become complicit in Vietnamese government repression, including censorship, harassment, and more, according to a report published Monday evening by Amnesty International. The report, entitled Let Us Read more…
November 10, 2020—By Ethics In Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s Republican nominee to the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday failed to disclose to the Senate his support for an effort backed by the president to gut what one leading advocacy group called “the most Read more…
November 4, 2020—By Ethics In Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Shares of Uber and Lyft soared Wednesday after California voters approved Proposition 22, which exempts app-based ride-hailing and delivery driving companies from classifying their workers as employees, allowing the firms to avoid providing basic—but costly—workplace rights and protections. Uber Read more…
October 8, 2020—By Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Millions of U.S. Facebook users have viewed dozens of climate disinformation ads paid for by shadowy right-wing groups this year, a think tank revealed Monday. A study by InfluenceMap found that during the first half of 2020 at least Read more…
October 7, 2020—By Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams A group of activists on Wednesday sued the city of San Francisco over its police department’s alleged illegal surveillance of protesters during recent racial justice demonstrations. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and ACLU of Northern California filed Read more…
October 7, 2020—By Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams House Democrats on Tuesday released a major report calling on Congress to overhaul U.S. antitrust law and take action to curtail the power of tech titans Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust Read more…
Published October 5, 2020 by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams A group of 15 peace activists on Saturday wrapped up a week-long nonviolent, socially-distanced protest at a Nevada Air Force base housing a command and control center for unmanned aerial drones. For the 11th straight year, CodePink and Veterans for Peace Read more…
More than 50 progressive writers and activists—including leading progressive voices Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, and Medea Benjamin—have signed an open letter urging people in swing states to vote for Joe Biden for president. “Ending the Trump presidency is, by far, the most important goal that can be achieved Read more…
Originally published by Collective 20 Note: Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins is a member of Collective 20, an international group of socialist activist/writers. In our first-ever interview, Collective 20 sat down for a socially-distanced conversation with Mary Wareham, advocacy director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW) Read more…
August 30, 2020, By Brett Wilkins (Image credit: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Creative Commons) On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, shattered the $200 billion ceiling. He had a decent day on the stock market, with Amazon shares edging up about 2 percent. But a “decent” 2 percent day for the Read more…