3 Stories You Should Read 6/5/2019: Global firewall, YouTube, CNN poll
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In the category of: Polling that matters
CNN Poll: Rising share expect Trump to win in 2020
A majority of Americans say they think Donald Trump is going to win a second term, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, even as the President’s reviews on issues other than the economy remain largely negative.
In the category of: The misused power of social media
YouTube Says It Won’t Take Action After Vox Journalist Reported Homophobic Harassment
The social media giant told Vox’s Carlos Maza that “deeply offensive” opinions don’t violate its anti-harassment policies.
YouTube on Tuesday declined to take action against a popular right-wing commentator who has been accused of a years-long campaign of homophobic and racist harassment against a Vox Media reporter.
Carlos Maza wrote a series of widely shared tweets last month about Steven Crowder, a conservative YouTuber with nearly 4 million subscribers who has published many videos mocking Maza and his Vox show, “Strikethrough.” In the videos, Crowder regularly refers to Maza with derogatory language. Maza said he wasn’t angry with Crowder himself but rather YouTube’s refusal to flex its regulatory muscles.
In the category: Where the money goes
The Haves and Have-Nots of Big Data
A “global firewall” is redrawing lines between countries—and people.
The use of facial recognition in airports has long been controversial, with citizens expressing outrage over the abuse of their privacy. This confrontation came to a head recently when San Francisco voted to ban facial-recognition software in law enforcement.
But why do state agencies like Customs & Border Protection (CBP) and the Transportation Security Administration have the right to take this data in the first place? What will they do with it—and what delimits their usage? Do we as citizens have the right to refuse?
These are important questions. But they only scratch the surface of the problem, which is the increased use of data—so-called Big Data—in statecraft writ large. Today, states see data as the best (and perhaps only) road towards guaranteeing security. This has led to a virtual land grab with states scrambling for more and better data. As one analyst put it: “Data is the new oil.”
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