EPISODE SUMMARY
This week we ask: What has been the role of global tech companies during the war in Ukraine? And is better regulation needed?
EPISODE NOTES
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year has created Europe’s largest refugee crisis in a generation and caused major disruption to the world’s economy and energy systems. In Ukraine itself, civilian life has been transformed and, in many cases, destroyed by the conflict.
One notable dimension of the war has been the intervention of major tech companies, including Facebook, Google, and SpaceX. Through multiple rapid responses they have successfully inhibited Russia’s information warfare strategy. These steps include a targeted digital blockade of Russia and ensuring Ukraine’s internet infrastructure is protected from online and offline attacks.
A new report published by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change analyses what the tech companies have done, explores implications for power and democracy, and makes recommendat
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1/9/2023
Co-hosted by IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UCL SSEES and the UCL European Institute
Speaker: Bill Browder, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign
Chair: Dr Ben Noble, Associate Professor of Russian Politics, UCL
Discussants: Dasha Afanasieva, Columnist, Reuters
Orysia Lutsevych, Head and Research Fellow,
Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Programme,
Chatham House
Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has been met with a broad set of responses: from military resistance by the Ukrainian armed forces to unprecedented international sanctions. In fact, the war has galvanised efforts to confront Vladimir Putin in a way that previous cases of Russian aggression have not been able to do. But efforts to take on Putin are not new. This event will place Russia’s war on Ukraine into this broader context of taking on Putin, with a fo
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Presented and edited by two UCL (University College London) graduates, Cassidy and Cerys, hear about research #MadeAtUCL on the costs of freedom.
In this episode we’re exploring the value of freedom, from the people who found it in the bleakest of circumstances to the ways in which we restrict our own freedom (and the freedom of others) without even realising it. Professor Virginia Mantouvalou shares her work on labour laws and explains how our legal system is creating situations that exploit vulnerable people. Dr Sarah J Young describes the experiences of Russian prisoners at Shlissel’burg and the memoirs she used to write her new book. And Dr Saheli Datta Burton tells us why we should be sceptical about our smart gadgets.
Transcript and show notes on www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…2-ep5-cost-freedom
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