Anita Gohdes

@argohdes
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Studying #repression, the #internet, and contentious politics. Lots of data analysis. Sprinkles of #popculture and #cats.
Professor @thehertieschool. 
Consultant @hrdag.

#fedi22 #politicalscience #humanrights #internationalrelations

Websitehttps://www.anitagohdes.net/
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There is only one reason for the Iranian regime to block the internet: to violently suppress the current mass protests. For more than a week, 93 million people there have been offline.

In her #rp24 session, Anita Gohdes (@argohdes) spoke about how internet shutdowns fuel political violence. ➡️ https://youtu.be/cFySBusg2SY

re:publica 2024: Anita Gohdes - Brute Force Censorship Never Went Out Of Style

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Hi fediverse! I've written a book on #repression and cyber controls! Working on the proofs, so it should be out soonish!

@politicalscience #cyber #repression #InternetShutdown

I am continually disappointed (but not surprised) by the people who decide to run platforms for user-generated content who have not bothered to study the last fifteen years of academic, industry, and policy work on content moderation and free speech.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar

I get it. I totally get it. Every tech dude comes along and has this thought: “hey, we’ll be the free speech social media site. We won’t do any moderation beyond what’s required.” Even Twitter init…

Techdirt

#Debirdify has been suspended by Twitter without warning or explanation. Apparently it violated ‘Twitter rules and policies’, but that is all they told us.

We contacted Twitter support about the situation, but we are not particularly optimistic.

We always knew this could happen; it happened to other services in the past, so we are neither particularly surprised nor sad about it.

In the mean time, Fedifinder still works: https://fedifinder.social

Use it while you still can!

Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

TikTok opens research #API to researchers based in the US
#commodon

https://www.tiktok.com/transparency/en-us/research-api/

Supporting independent research | TikTok

As part of our efforts to stay accountable to how we moderate and recommend content, we've built an API that includes public data on content and accounts on our platform.

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In a rare moment of media covering itself, here's the lead story on The Guardian right now (while everybody is *at last* covering the venality of Fox News, too)...
Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people
[I signed the letter, too]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/new-york-times-contributors-open-letter-protest-anti-trans-coverage?CMP=share_btn_tw
Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people

The letter – also signed by thousands of subscribers – says the paper’s reporting has been used in support of anti-trans legislation

The Guardian
Soon! #2FA
This week a few HRDAG colleagues had a cozy meetup in Oxford! @pball @argohdes @thegargiulian
Gewählt, und mein eh schon sehr entspanntes Wahllokal war noch leerer als 2021. Vergesst nicht, heute wählen zu gehen, wenn ihr dürft und noch nicht habt #BerlinWählt
I just talked to a journalist and just kept finding myself saying "people are mean on the internet" which should probably just be the title of the article and every other one like it.