Jillian C. York is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism, available from Verso. She joined Nathan to discuss:
- How tech giants side with authoritarian governments over the dissidents repressed by those governments
- How U.S. foreign policy is enforced by private corporations
- How Facebook's choices about what to put in your news feed determine the picture you see of the world
- How social media companies' decisions about censorship and speech are now more important than the Supreme Court and the First Amendment
- The disturbing lack of transparency in tech companies' censorship decisions
- Whether Wikipedia-style participatory governance could fix the problems with social media