![]() Mental illness, chronic pain, loss of employment, vulnerability to crime, drugs in the family – information about all these spread via social media, and they can be reduced with sensible policies. ![]() When the press is free, and when leaders are elected, leaders have a strong incentive to help. A central reason is that famines are a product not only of a scarcity of food, but also a nation’s failure to provide solutions. that in the history of the world, there has never been a famine in a system with a democratic press and free elections. Sen, Development as Freedom (London: Oxford University Press, 2001). In the process, the existence of social media can prod citizens to seek solutions.Ĭonsider the remarkable finding, by the economist Amartya Sen, 2 2. Social media platforms help us alert one another to a million and one different problems. When democracies are functioning properly, people’s sufferings and challenges are not entirely private matters. Social media platforms make that tons easier. They also need to be able to convey it to others. For people to govern themselves, they need to have information. On balance, they are not merely good they are terrific. On balance, the question of whether social media platforms are good for democracy is easy. Marielle Franco What happens when a giant sneezes?ĭeborah Doane Conversations Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky: “Human rights impact assessments must be part of economic reforms” Lucia Sestokas, Nathália Oliveira Voices “Pacification” for whom? Raiane Assumpção, Fernanda Frinhani, Javier Amadeo, Aline Lúcia Gomes, Débora da Silva, Valéria Silva Drug policy is a women’s issue Lucy Purdon Essays State violence: seeking access to justice Ted Piccone Building a movement for net neutrality Reem Al Masri Democracy and digital technology Renata Avila Pinto David Kaye: “Net neutrality is part of the overall struggle for human rights in a digital age”Īnita Gurumurthy, Deepti Bharthur Online Public Engagement in Jordan Márcio Moretto Ribeiro, Pablo Ortellado Digital sovereignty or digital colonialism? Mariana Valente, Natália Neris Fake news: what it is and how to deal with it he was hounded for it, but it’s just common sense.+ ARTICLES x Letter to the readers Sur 27 – Letter to the readers The SUR file on Internet and Democracy Are we going to feminise the internet? Recently, a government minister had the ‘cheek’ to suggest that in cold weather people put on warmer clothes. Thats a huge increase in energy expenditure, and it doesn’t surprise me one bit. From what I’ve read: average indoor temperatures have risen from 12C in 1970 to about 17.5C (63.5F) today. NOT just because it would save money & the environment, but because it would remind people in general that *in winter, you dress warmer*. One of my whimsical policy ideas if I was UK Prime Minister would be to reduce the temperature of all government buildings in winter to encourage people to wear warmer clothing. This whole area is a thought-experiment hobby for me. It also has policies that encourage entrepreneurship and a pro-business mindset from a young age, and many of the policies take ages to take their affect. The main game already has the ‘big blunt instruments’ like income tax and spending on health care, but this pack has the slow-burn stuff like public awareness campaigns and cycling subsidies. basically it’s a policy & dilemma pack which adds 26 policies and 8 new dilemmas, but not randomly, more on a theme of ‘social engineering’, in other words, all those subtle imperceptible ways in which society is shaped by the government. That expansion is called ‘Social Engineering’, and I talk about it in my relaxed and charismatic yet fascinating way in the video below…įor those who skip the video, first of all note you can grab the expansion from my site here or on steam here. I slipped this in a bit under the radar yesterday because of the amazing 50% off deal this weekend for Democracy 3, but you may have noticed that Democracy 3 now has an expansion pack/DLC/whatever we call it these days.
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