{"id":346,"date":"2020-10-10T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/?page_id=346"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T06:02:18","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/?page_id=346","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-30 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writings and musings<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-369 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-article\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">The lack of online privacy is affecting your chances of getting loans and jobs<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Authors: Mary Chaffee and Nikita Ostrander The way that corporations use the data that they harvest from people\u2019s digital wakes makes it seem like the internet is booby-trapped. Having your potential job prospects or access to credit depend on unknowable interpretations of your browsing history, interests, or purchases, takes control out of people\u2019s hands. When&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/?p=369\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-361 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">The Emergence and Perils of Digital Activism and Content Moderation<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Social media, as the documentary The Social Dilemma explains, is an addictive force that has nearly everyone (in the developed world) addicted. This is not new this year, but rather has been an ongoing and increasingly acute phenomenon. Today, no one would blame you if you avoided logging on to Facebook or Twitter for fear&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/?p=361\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-340 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Centers of power and influence for Internet and Technology Companies<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The internet has connected the globe and has provided knowledge and opportunity for billions of people over the past 25 years. As the internet becomes ever more available, it is important to look at who the established players already are. Over the last few decades, internet accessibility has remained exceedingly unequal across the globe. Even&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/?p=340\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-346","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikostra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}