Ethics, Stasi, Cashless Sweden, Five Things, Digital Authoritarianism, Grande Nation - Issue #392

The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity

In East Germany, a gamer scene emerged just before the fall of communism. Teenagers met at a computer club to swap and play C64 games. The state watched with interest.

Cash is disappearing in the country faster than anyone thought it would. Now, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine the societal costs.

This is the eighth year in a row that global digital freedom has declined, according to think tank Freedom House’s annual Freedom on the Net report.

Snowden and Cambridge Analytica have put France off Silicon Valley giants. It's a change of heart that could have global ramifications

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