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Internet communication in modern China is filled with baits and traps: user-friendly Web page designs, easy-to-click icons and symbolized facial expressions, beautiful female stars in online ads and constantly updated international news induce
users
to participate and express their own ideas.
Amazon has a mountain of information about all of its
users
– from their profiles to their search histories to the sentences they highlight in e-books – which it uses to predict what they might want to buy next.
While Twitter
users
are not a random sample of the population, they are quite representative, as their geographic footprint is highly correlated with that of the population as a whole.
Domestic US oil producers, as well as those in allied countries, such as Mexico and Russia, would be devastated, though
users
of oil around the world would benefit enormously.
The reason we seem incapable of coming together to protect the climate is known as the “tragedy of the commons”: a shared resource tends to be rapidly depleted because no single actor – whether a country or a person – considers how their actions affect other
users.
But while most
users
get a high, only about one in five develops an addiction – and only after years of using.
By contrast, older
users
(1) are less likely to do stupid things in the first place, and (2) are less likely to do so in range of a camera.
The critics may not represent the majority of users, but they deserve a polite and considered response.
If the market is working towards a world where
users
exercise the power to manage their own reputations, it will ultimately punish companies that become too arrogant.
Unfortunately, since Microsoft uses network effects to maximize its profits rather than to benefit users, the world it delivers is far from the best.
Since 1992, the number of Internet
users
has exploded from one million to nearly three billion.
The Internet began as a small village of known users, where an authentication layer of code was unnecessary and the development of norms was simple.
Yes, they mean well, and they feel their users’ pain.
Called Watsi, the charity allows
users
to read personal tales of medical woe in emerging markets and contribute up to the total amount needed to pay for a particular patient’s treatment.
Since Duterte’s inauguration last year, police and affiliated death squads have summarily executed more than 8,000 suspected drug
users.
Though the Trump administration has yet to propose an adequate response to its crisis – declaring a national emergency and failing to put any new spending behind the order is clearly insufficient – at least it recognizes that using the police to kill dealers and
users
is not a solution.
In addition to having become the world’s industrial park, China now has more mobile phone subscribers than the combined populations of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the number of Internet
users
has just surpassed that in the US.
Similarly, when companies with billions of
users
scattered around the world suffer data breaches or choose to pursue profits at the expense of universal human rights, it is not currently clear who can hold them to account.
This measure, which will work only if it is binding, is in the interest of all countries and companies, because the trust that
users
have in the services built on top of these protocols depends on it.
As a hypothetical example, an agreement on emissions from coal-fired power stations might include large
users
such as China, the European Union, India, Japan, and the United States, which together account for about 80% of global coal-fired capacity.
When the Internet became global, its management was turned over to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which enlists the voices of individual Internet
users
in its governance – a significant departure from intergovernmental multilateralism.
All too often, the response is to stigmatize and penalize drug
users.
But reforming drug laws, offering chronic
users
proper treatment, and vigorously pursuing high-level drug traffickers will reduce the damaging impact of illegal drugs on communities, families, and individuals.
While a number of new initiatives – such as the News Literacy Project’s Checkology training courses, and Factitious, an online game that tests users’ ability to identify fake news – are trying to bolster the public’s filtering capacity, the impact has so far been limited.
A somewhat haphazard sub-set of potential products can, with the right business model, be profitable – say, through advertising or by selling the information that they passively collect from
users.
For example, to stop bots from being used to amplify content artificially, platforms may require that
users
disclose their real identities (though this would be problematic in authoritarian regimes where anonymity protects democracy advocates).
Because
users
engage heavily with this type of content, digital platforms have an incentive to showcase it.
Moreover, smokers and PNV
users
control very precisely, on a puff-by-puff basis, the dose of nicotine they consume, virtually eliminating the risk of overdose.
In January, a group of scientists (including me) sent a letter to the European Commission imploring it to implement evidence-based, proportionate regulation that allows
users
of PNVs to identify the product and dosage that suits them.
As much as Internet companies like Facebook or Google want to collect data about their users, there are limits to their power to do so.
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