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World Affairs Council of Greater Houston
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David Kaye – Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston 2222 West Loop South, Houston, TX, United StatesThe internet was designed as a promising global platform for free-speech and information sharing, according to David Kaye. However, this vast space has become a breeding ground for fake news, violence and hatred, threatening disaster all over the world. Over the years, three American behemoths--Facebook, YouTube and Twitter--became the way most of the world experiences …
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Fatima Bhutto: New Kings of the World
Amegy Bank Tower 1717 West Loop South, HoustonThe new global popular culture is a benign version of the challenge on multiple fronts—economic, political, military, diplomatic—to the ideas and norms that the West has tried to impose on the rest of the world. Bhutto's book is an important dispatch from a new order that is taking form before our eyes. It isn't just …
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