This Week In Cyberspace

Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon
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This Week In Cyberspace

Join Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon as they scan their retinas across the latest global cyber issues and compress them into byte-sized chunks of goodness for your ears. As Executive Director of Access Now, Brett has a unique insight into the role of human rights in the digital age. Nell worked with the Lock the Gate Alliance and hosts Roadtrip on BayFM99.9 where TWICS is first broadcast live from Bundjalung Country on Australia's easternmost point. Hard core data with a dash of downloadable humour.

  1. NOV 12

    TWICS US Election Debrief

    One week on from the American election and the progressive world is still reeling. How could a racist sexist autocratic felon have scored the top job? What has happened to the actual culture of the United States to allow Donald Trump to win the popular vote? For the Republicans, who supported an insurrection, and promoted crazy conspiracy theories and spread misinformation and disinformation, for them to be rewarded by the majority of the public? What are the global ramifications? And how do we move forward from this?

    19 min

  2. NOV 5

    TWICS US Election Special #4

    It's V-Day - Tuesday Nov 5 - the day America votes. But is the US election really coming down to a stand off between men and women? Trump is telling women that he’ll be their protector, while at the same time saying former congresswoman Liz Cheney should have guns trained at her face for critisising the storming of the Capitol last time. It’s a monumental shit show in the Republican Camp with Harris rising above the hateful rhetoric being hurled her way. But is morality going to win this election? And what about the impact of AI on democracy?

    19 min

  3. OCT 29

    TWICS US Election Special #3

    The US election has hit a new low with Donald Trump’s rally in Maddison Square Garden on Sunday Night turning into a real hate fest. Parallels have been made between the event and a Nazi rally in Maddison Square Garden back in 1939. The Republican nominee vowed to “Launch the largest deportation program in American history” and denounced the press “the enemy of the people”. Meanwhile in the swing state of Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris held a much smaller rally in Philadelphia and focused on the future and women’s right to choose. Brett Solomon was there.

    15 min

  4. OCT 22

    U.S. Election Special #2

    A new study has revealed that Americans are deeply concerned about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the election. Nearly 40% of those polled reckon AI will be used for evil with only 5% believing it is a force for good.  And then there’s the money issue. Elon Musk has started giving away $1m a day to a voter who signs up to his America Political Action Committee petition, and he says he’s going to keep it up until election day.  This strictly capitalist competition is intended to get Trump into office and is open to voters in key battleground states but is a lottery like this even legal?

    16 min

  5. OCT 15

    U.S. Election Special Series #1

    With just three weeks to go before the US election, all eyes are on the two major candidates - one, a vibrant 59 year-old woman of the people, and of colour; the other a 78 year- old white male billionaire who has just got a massive leg up from the richest man in the world. Elon Musk is using his powerful social media platform X to trumpet his support of the Republican candidate to his  201 million followers. So will Musk’s support of  Trump be enough to beat the beacon of hope that is Vice President Kamala Harris?

    15 min

  6. JUL 18

    4.12 - 15 Years In The Making

    In this special extended edition of TWICS, co-host Brett Solomon reflects on his 15 years as Executive Director of Access Now. When he started in the job Facebook and Twitter were just emerging as social media platforms. Since then we've seen the rise of both as powerful tech tools and the internet as a force for good, evil and all the grey areas in between. What are the challenges ahead for digital rights defenders and how can citizens get involved to protect their data online?

    50 min

  7. JUN 30

    4.11 - Team Assange

    This Week In Cyberspace, Julian Assange was brought back home to Australian soil in Canberra after a 14 year trial. The following morning, Senator David Shoebridge organised a press conference in Parliament House with Assange's wife Stella Assange, legal team Jennifer Robinson and Barry Pollock, Senators Zoe Daniel, Murray Watt, Peter Wish-Wilson, and former Senator Scott Ludlam. TWICS was on the sidelines - 27.6.24

    11 min

  8. MAY 1

    4.10 - Global Digital Brinkmanship

    We examine the growing battle between tech giants and governments around the world. In the US, Biden has signed off on an ultimatum to Tik Tok to divest or be banned. In Australia, the eSafety Commissioner has issued an ultimatum to X to either take down the video of the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney or pay a daily fine of $785,000 per day. And then there's the European Union where the digital commissioner says a new ‘task and reward program’ on TikTok Lite could be as ‘addictive as cigarettes’. It's the age of global digital brinkmanship.

    16 min
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About

Join Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon as they scan their retinas across the latest global cyber issues and compress them into byte-sized chunks of goodness for your ears. As Executive Director of Access Now, Brett has a unique insight into the role of human rights in the digital age. Nell worked with the Lock the Gate Alliance and hosts Roadtrip on BayFM99.9 where TWICS is first broadcast live from Bundjalung Country on Australia's easternmost point. Hard core data with a dash of downloadable humour.

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  • Creator
    Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Nell Schofield and Brett Solomon
  • Show Website
    This Week In Cyberspace

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