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Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives

Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives

Tech companies govern the internet. Here’s how we should hold their power to account.

2019

Nicolas P. Suzor

Nicolas P. Suzor

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Automated Decision-Making and Society

Easier to find a hot tub than a step-free entrance on Airbnb

Only a tiny proportion of Airbnb listings in popular tourist destinations are clearly labelled with accessibility features.

5 min readNov 14, 2022

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A hot-tub with a view across a green valley, from the side of hotel Archontiko at Metsovo village, Greece.

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The Oversight Board launches

The Oversight Board hears appeals and makes binding decisions about how Facebook and Instagram apply their rules, in line with human rights

3 min readMay 6, 2020

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The Oversight Board launches

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Cloudflare drops 8Chan. How can we make these decisions more legitimate?

How human rights principles can help tech companies make better rules, and adopting rule of law protections can help them gain our trust.

5 min readAug 7, 2019

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Cloudflare drops 8Chan. How can we make these decisions more legitimate?

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Nicolas Suzor

Facebook’s Oversight Board and the challenges of making policy we can trust

If Facebook wants people to trust its content moderation decisions, it will need real checks and balances — a new kind of constitution.

12 min readMay 27, 2019

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Facebook’s Oversight Board and the challenges of making policy we can trust

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DMRC at large

Meaningful transparency can help social media platforms fight perceptions of bias and conspiracies

Our research shows how the lack of information has led to a crisis of confidence. We explain what tech companies can do to improve trust.

5 min readMay 21, 2019

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Meaningful transparency can help social media platforms fight perceptions of bias and conspiracies

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YouTube nukes its API and search functionality in response to Christchurch massacre

YouTube’s first tool to fight the spread of hatred is not a suite of sophisticated algorithms — it’s a big button that cripples search.

2 min readMar 20, 2019

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YouTube nukes its API and search functionality in response to Christchurch massacre

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There is no magic algorithm that can moderate live streams and fix racism

Regulating social media will not end extremism. Politicians and the media must take responsibility for their role in spreading hatred.

4 min readMar 20, 2019

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There is no magic algorithm that can moderate live streams and fix racism

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Trying to understand YouTube’s recommendation system

YouTube’s broken API prevents us from interrogating the videos that it recommends.

5 min readFeb 27, 2019

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Trying to understand YouTube’s recommendation system

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Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives

We need new digital constitutions that protect our rights. Preview my new book, coming out with Cambridge University Press in 2019.

9 min readNov 19, 2018

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Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives

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Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by…

How well do social media platforms do, when measured against the standards of legitimacy that we apply to governments? Very poorly.

5 min readJul 18, 2018

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Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by…

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Nicolas Suzor

Nicolas Suzor

Book Author

I study the governance of the internet. Law Professor @QUTLaw and @QUTDMRC; Member of @OversightBoard. All views are my own. Author: Lawless (July 2019).

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