eff Jarvis was born in 1954 and studied journalism at Illinois’s Northwestern University. He worked as a TV critic and created the magazineand in 2005 he became an associate professor at City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism, directing its new media programme before retiring last year. Jarvis, who lives in New York, is the co-host of the podcastsMy glib answer is that somebody has to defend the freedoms of the internet because I fear they’re under attack.
As I read the literature on this, it’s clear that the research is far from definitive either way. When we, we once again pass over the much more serious issues. In the US, children are afraid to go to school for getting shot. Young women evermore have no control over their bodies. They are inheriting a climate that we fucked up. They are in the midst of a fascist takeover of the country. Oh yeah, let’s blame the phones.I’m more frightened of the AI boys than I am of their AI.
What impact will the Trump administration have on regulation – and more broadly on your vision for reclaiming the internet?editorial decision and with Meta trying to back away from all politics. No one wants to make judgments because it’s expensive and risky to do so. On the one hand, we’ll find companies and investors run wild. On the other, we will see some vindictive action from the Trumpists against certain companies because they have this belief that they’ve been discriminated against.
God knows. It’s often said that they both want centre stage, so this won’t work, but Trump loves billionaires and crazy, outlandish talk. And Musk, obviously, loves being at the centre of power. His investment in Twitter seemed insane, and it certainly was damaging, but it gave him this power, and this power led to Tesla stock going up. So it probably turned out to be a good investment – in ruining America. I don’t think he’s going to disappear.