Digital Authoritarianism
What were two of the three countries in the study of digital authoritarianism?
Turkey, Hungary, & India
What relationship concerned Canadian legislators.
Tiktok and Chinese National Intelligence
Which country enforced the law where one could be arrested for insulting the president?
Turkey
It is common practice for terms and conditions to include what?
Secret clauses
What is surprisingly rarely monitored through digital authoritarianism?
Criminal activity
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What was the name of the NBA player who was banned on Turkish and Chinese broadcasts?
Enes Kanter
Describe informed consent.
The principle that individuals should fully understand what they are agreeing to before legally consenting.
Name one tool Steven Feldstein argued have been used as ways essentially track citizens’ behaviours.
Mass surveillance systems, facial recognition, data analytics, and content monitoring
What was Tiktok originally named?
Douyin
What are the risks of excessive censorship?
It can undermine freedom of expression, silence marginalized voices, enable political manipulation, and allow controlled narratives to dominate
What do security laws revolve around?
What is reasonable for the consumer.
What are the differences of traditional control compared to digital authoritarianism?
Traditional control relies heavily on overt and forceful coercion where the individual feels significantly less autonomy in decision making. However, digital authoritarianism functions much more subtly through methods the user often cannot recognize.
Which company owns Tiktok?
ByteDance
Define hybrid regimes.
Political systems that blend democratic institutions with authoritarian practices, such as regulating “online insults” or using surveillance tools.
Name 2 out of the 3 mentioned entities that would be interested in purchasing data from social media companies.
Affiliates, advertisers, and third party companies