The tides of public sentiment in the United States have turned squarely against Silicon Valley's leading internet firms. Long-running Congressional inquiries; employee-led backlashes and news leaks; expert analyses that have uncovered deep-rooted social concerns; and aggressive journalistic inquiry—these and other actions have pushed the executives of America's most successful technology firms under the public microscope. Around the world, there is clear nonpartisan concern about the unaccountable ways that technology companies have invaded personal privacy, threatened the viability of traditional forms of work and the economic welfare they provide to workers, and challenged the backbone of democracy and free press. There seems to be increasing consensus that the commercial internet has become a privately controlled public sphere in which citizens are exposed to a multitude of perspectives all on the same “playing field.” This paper's contribution is to argue for the need of a “social contract” for technology—a set of principles that technology corporations and states must adhere to so as to ensure that we overcome the zero-sum path we are headed to today.

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新的技术社会契约

美国的公众情绪已经转向直接反对硅谷领先的互联网公司。长期的国会调查；员工主导的反弹和新闻泄露；专家分析揭示了根深蒂固的社会问题；和激进的新闻调查——这些和其他行动已经将美国最成功的科技公司的高管置于公众的显微镜下。在世界范围内，对于科技公司以不负责任的方式侵犯个人隐私、威胁传统工作形式的生存能力及其为工人提供的经济福利以及挑战民主和新闻自由的支柱的方式，存在明显的无党派关注。似乎越来越多的人认为，商业互联网已经成为一个私人控制的公共领域，在这个领域中，公民可以在同一个“运动场”上接触到多种观点。本文的贡献是论证了技术“社会契约”的必要性——技术公司和国家必须遵守的一组原则，以确保我们克服今天走向的零和道路。