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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member Maureen Ohlhausen talked about some of the key issues involving the FTC and the Internet.

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• 863 views

FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (R) talked about communications issues in 2018, including how the internet will operate now that net neutrality rules have ended and how it relates to…

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• 811 views

Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media, talked about issues relating to how social media…

• 4 minutes
• 787 views

Technology watcher Tim Wu talked about his book, The Curse of Bigness and the similarities between the Gilded Age and events that are occurring today. He spoke about the economic factors…

• 5 minutes
• 702 views

Daniel Solove discusses his book "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet," which addresses the Internet's impact on privacy and free speech.

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• 617 views

The Minnesota Democrat shares his concerns following an April 9 hearing on the potential merger between Comcast and Time-Warner Cable. You can watch the full interview on The Communicators…

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• 579 views

Noah Phillips (R), a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), talked about the current patchwork of data privacy laws and how that compares to the data privacy laws in the…

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• 432 views

NYU Professor Adam Alter on addictive technology and the potential negative effects of prolonged use.

• 6 minutes
• 412 views

Professor Rahul Telan talked about how Netflix uses consumer data to create content and adapt to customer needs.

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• 384 views

Amina Fazlullah and Daniel Lyons talked about the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Lifeline program, which subsidizes phone service for poorer Americans.

• 6 minutes
• 384 views

University of Pennsylvania Communications Professor Joseph Turow on data protection and privacy policies.

• 5 minutes
• 353 views

Matthew Prince talked about hate speech on the internet and the First Amendment issues it raises. He questioned whether he did the right thing by booting a neo-Nazi group off Cloudflare,…

• 8 minutes
• 352 views

Former Obama administration Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler talked about the impact of technological revolutions like the industrial revolution on the economy and…

• 5 minutes
• 303 views

Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Karen Kornbluh, discussed transparency of internet advertisements. She compared the laws impacting television…

• 4 minutes
• 279 views

NCTA President and CEO Michael Powell says Facebook's challenges were predictable and inevitable given that the social media company is a platform-based advertising model that emphasizes…

• 2 minutes
• 276 views

Author and professor Zeynep Tufekci explains how algorithms used by social media sites can make inferences about users and how that can impact the public.

• 5 minutes
• 268 views

Incarceration Nation was one of the second-place high school central division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Mary Sier, a senior at Royal Oak High School in…

• 8 minutes
• 259 views

Author and professor Zeynep Tufekci explains how social media sites use algorithms to deliver information to users.

• 3 minutes
• 259 views

Katie Harbath, Facebook Global Politics Director, talks with Communicators during 2018 “State of the Net” Conference.

• 4 minutes
• 253 views

Gigi Sohn discussed her predictions of what might occur if the FCC overturns the 2015 net neutrality rules. She mentions the possible creation of fast lanes.

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• 218 views