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Berlusconi’s policy platforms, even his fundamental ideology, have always lacked consistency.
Moreover, they must meet the need for new power lines to carry low-carbon solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power from remote areas (and offshore platforms) to population centers.
German and French pressure has led to calls for beefed-up regulatory powers to rein in powerful, usually American platforms, such as Google and Facebook.
After all, it is European small businesses, not just American, that benefit from e-commerce
platforms
like eBay and Amazon and the advertising services of Google and Facebook.
Unless Big Tech
platforms
are held to standards that parallel those applied to print, radio, and television, in-depth reporting and fact-checking will remain dying arts.
ICT can also help to address shortages of qualified teachers and other educational resources by providing access across long distances, via online learning
platforms.
After all, social-media
platforms
not only play a crucial role as conduits for the free flow of information; they have also faced strong criticism for failing to police illegal or abusive content, particularly hate speech and extremist propaganda.
In fact, Germany has already enacted a law that will impose severe fines on
platforms
that do not remove illegal user content in a timely fashion.
These ongoing measures are a response to the weaponization of social-media
platforms
by illiberal state intelligence agencies and extremist groups seeking to divide Western societies with hate speech and disinformation.
Despite having allowed themselves to become Kremlin special-operations tools, the major social-media
platforms
have been reluctant to provide information to democratic governments and the public.
When democracy itself is at stake, social-media
platforms
have a responsibility to be transparent.
Hostile powers have turned our open Internet into a cesspool of disinformation, much of which is spread by automated bots that the major
platforms
could purge without undermining open debate – that is, if they had the will to do so.
Online rating
platforms
– specializing in hotels (TripAdvisor), restaurants (Zagat), apartments (Airbnb), and taxis (Uber) – allow travelers to exchange reviews and experiences for all to see.
Existing platforms, such as the G-8 summits, are unsuitable to achieve this course of action, mainly because key players from the developing world are not included.
But while margin financing, enabled by online platforms, amplified the risks of volatility, it alone could not cause such a crash.
On many issues, the positions of populist parties conflict with the traditional pro-capital and pro-market
platforms
of established center-right parties.
“‘Data management platforms’ such as those operated by Acxiom or Oracle BlueKai possess thousands of personal attributes and socio-psychological profiles about hundreds of millions of users.”
Trading
platforms
are being improved to allow more complex trading.
Ideological party
platforms
have lost their force; voters do not accept the specific bundles offered by parties but want to pick and choose.
Citizens must become reengaged with the political process, educated in public affairs, and provided with real (not merely virtual)
platforms
to air their differences and debate alternative views.
Now, digital
platforms
– including powerful American companies – are scrambling to adjust.
The proliferation of AI technologies will shift labor demand away from repetitive tasks that can more easily be automated or outsourced to platforms, toward socially or cognitively driven tasks.
These are important issues, but not nearly as serious as the threat that malware poses to critical infrastructure – electricity grids, air traffic systems, oil pipelines, water supplies, financial platforms, and so on.
To this end, in addition to its taxation, finance, and trade-facilitation policies, it should establish trade-promotion mechanisms in the world’s major export markets, so that firms can build comprehensive networks of international trade-service
platforms
and trade-cooperation zones overseas.
In recent years, much attention has been devoted to “fake news” – outright disinformation that spreads widely, often through social media or other online
platforms.
There is one more possible solution: the establishment of migrant processing and resettlement centers – “disembarkation platforms” – outside of EU territory.
But the European Council is now considering just such disembarkation platforms, as well it should be.
Europe should not emulate Australia, but the establishment of these types of
platforms
– with real processing and relocation – in third countries could offer major benefits, not least preventing further dramas like the Aquarius episode.
Disembarkation
platforms
would enable controlled assessment of which migrants are owed legal protection by the EU, prior to their resettlement in the Union.
Disembarkation
platforms
in third countries raise legal, ethical, and financial challenges.
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