The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web

It may not have intended to, precisely, but the United Nations just took sides in the Internet’s most brutal culture war.

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On Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” — which, nbd, we’ve all heard before. But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work. More...

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