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Toward a more inclusive internet

Related words:

1. digital equility 数字平权
2. disparities in/ between 巨大差距 the disparity between the rates of pay for men and women
3. inherent 内在的，固有的 inherent bias
4. underlying 根本的 underlying cause/ problem/ logic 根本的原因/ 问题/逻辑
5. surveil 监控 surveillance
6. conceal 隐匿和隐藏
7. exploit human generated data for profit 利用数据盈利
8. shared resources 共享资源
9. legislation 立法
10. discrimination 歧视
11. the deployment of new technology 新技术的运用
12. oversight 疏忽，监督 have oversight of sth

Vocabulary:

1. exclusive interview 独家专访
2. progress march towards digital equility
3. masterful 巧妙地，精湛的
4. consist of = be composed of 由什么构成的
5. arena = field 领域，舞台
6. note 指出
7. arise （问题）出现，发生 problem/ conflict arise from /out of 由什么引起或者发生
8. overt 公开的
9. malice 恶意，害人之心
10. competent 合格的，胜任的 incompetent 不合格的
11. mitigate = lessen = alleviate 减轻，缓解，缓和 climate change adaptation and mitigation 气候变换的适应和减缓
12. with regard to = in terms of
13. exacerbate 使问题恶化
14. harassment 骚扰 sexual/ racial harassment 性/种族骚扰
15. prepetrator = bad guy 作恶者，犯罪者
16. by design = intentionally 有意的 by accident 无意的
17. as such = therefore
18. nudge 轻推
19. rectify 纠正，矫正
20. output 产量，输出量
21. trade-off 平衡，妥协 a trade-off between A and B
22. serve to do something 用于
23. eschew 避开
24. presume 推测，认为
25. foster 培养，培育
26. corporate compliance 公司合规
27. perpetuate 尤指不好的事情持续，长久
28. conceive of sth/sb as sth 想象，认为
29. remove = eliminate 消除障碍，解决问题
30. underrepresented 缺乏关注的，比例过低
31. make case for 理由，论据
32. constraint 限制，制约
33. leverage 利用，充分发挥

Nice sentence:

1. (探讨技术的两面性）Technology has the power to either mitigate or intensify problematic patterns of exclusion, with regard to gender, race, sexuality, geography, and ability. while some digital technologies exacerbate harrassment, for example, providing potential perpetrators with new opportunities and methods of abuse technology can also be a part of the solution, providing virtual spaces for empathy-building and harnessing alogrithms that promote prosocial conduct.
2. （技术只是工具）Technology is merely a tool that " can nudge change" when made ethical by design. As such, the idea of equality must be systematically prioritized in the development and implementation of new technologies. How poor outcomes often arise not from overt malice but rather when technologies either competently replicate societal shortcomings or are incompetently implemented.
3. There are always trade-offs when new technologies ae deployed. Fairness and equality often come at social costs, and technology can serve both to support and to surveil, to heal and to harm, to detect and to conceal, to equalize and to exclude. For exmaple, those technologies, designed to uncover workplace harassment, can also chill speech and invade privacy. Despite these tensions, we should eschew pessimitically rejecting innovations that are presumed to be promatic. Because experimentation and failure are important steps in the march toward technological equity. That is why we ought to focus not no whether an algorithem is flowed but on whether it is safer, fairer, and more unbiased than ever.
4. (政府应该加强对数据的监管）To attain equality through technology, the government ought to promote legislation that conceives of consumer data as a shared resource that should be made accessible for nonprofit resarch. And more government funds would be invested into ensuring that consumer data capture underrepresented demographics and the creation of progressive public-private infrastructure and governance systems to manage and oversee the deployment of new technology. As same as new pharmaceuticals, new algorithms would benefit from more comprehensive regulations.