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Raman, in a previousjob you worked for google in delhi as their government affairs manager. i wonder what it was like interacting with the government. thanks, ross. id say that what one has to keep in mind, if youre working for a tech or a social media platform in india, that its a very active job involving quite a few requests and tensions around content removal, as well as user data. and if you see the public disclosures from tech platforms, this is a matter of public record. india tops many o...

You worked for google in delhi as their government affairs manager. i wonder what it was like interacting with the government. thanks, ros. id say that, what one has to keep in mind, if youre working for a tech or a social media platform in india, that its a very active job involving quite a few requests and tensions around content removal, as well as user data. and if you see the public disclosures from tech platforms, this is a matter of public record. india tops many of those lists. and, in f...

Scroll and ramanjit singh chima, asia policy director at the digital rights organisation access now. raman, in a previousjob you worked for google in delhi as their government affairs manager. i wonder what it was like interacting with the government. thanks, ros. id say that what one has to keep in mind, if youre working for a tech or a social media platform in india, that its a very active job involving quite a few requests and tensions around content removal, as well as user data. and if you ...

Raman, in a previousjob you worked for google in delhi as their government affairs manager. i wonder what it was like interacting with the government. thanks, ross. id say that what one has to keep in mind, if youre working for a tech or a social media platform in india, that its a very active job involving quite a few requests and tensions around content removal, as well as user data. and if you see the public disclosures from tech platforms, this is a matter of public record. india tops many o...

Helping stoke the extremism and the online grievances that contributed to the violent events on january six. and so on the one side, theyre dealing with that, but on the right, you have house republicans gearing up to really focus on these accusations that tech platforms are biased against their party. and central to those claims are the suspensions of donald trump. i also think twitters decision in november was more -- facebook back on the platform because then you will be in a situation where ...

Legally speaking. the change is unlikely to come from members of congress but rather the score. two cases to the high court challenged 230 the law that shields social media companies from getting sued over third party content on their site. one suit that scotus will take up accuses youtubes ago chrisms of spreading terror wrist content and that youtube didnt do enough to block terrorists from using the platform. >> theyve been so focused on basically taking conservatives off the platform theyve ...

The context of a legal framework, but then codes of practice and transparency with regulators. and i think thats the way forward with online safety bill. set some clear responsibilities, but then you need to develop policies which will change over time. so would you say the system is working at the moment in terms of protecting people? no, because i think thats, weve done that ourselves, but thats not consistently a standard across the different tech platforms. and we see, you know, twitter in t...

Different tech platforms. and we see, you know, twitter in the news and others. so i think theres an importance of having a set of standards for everyone. its also important, i think, that the larger players, the more popular platforms like youtube, have a higher bar because more people are using them every day. and i think thats appropriate. and then when you say youre talking to regulators or youre lobbying, actually what were trying to do is explaining the kind of thing that ive just talked y...

How do you decide what is and isnt allowed? its a free speech world, but is that harmful? so we worked with 150 expert agencies. europol, the home office, institute for strategic dialogue and so on, to come up with some policies to define that. we then trained people to classify videos, and then when they could do it accurately, we trained machines and now we report on how effective that policy is. and i can tell you that 90% of videos that violate that policy never are seen by a single human. s...

Is and isnt allowed? its a free speech world, but is that harmful? so we worked with 150 expert agencies. europol, the home office, institute for strategic dialogue and so on, to come up with some policies to define that. we then trained people to classify videos, and then when they could do it accurately, we trained machines and now we report on how effective that policy is. and i can tell you that 90% of videos that violate that policy never are seen by a single human. so we can do that in the...