11-15, 10:30–11:00 (Asia/Beirut), 4th Dimension
Join us for a Q&A with Jillian York, author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism, who will be discussing her comprehensive book on the relationship between tech companies and digital rights in our region and across the globe at large.
The discussion will be follow by a book-signing, make sure to get your copy!
"Leading campaigner Jillian York, looks at how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. She also looks at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. Who decides the difference between political debate and hate speech? How does this impact on our identity, our ability to create communities and to protest? Who regulates the censors?"
Jillian C. York is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is based in Berlin, Germany. Her work examines state and corporate censorship and its impact on culture and human rights, with a focus on historically marginalized communities.
Nourhane Kazak is the English editor at SMEX.