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How should the digital space be regulated?

How should the likes of Twitter and Facebook be controlled to ensure the proper functioning

of democracy?

Unlike most academic philosophers, Rokana has a rather direct way of influencing policy.

He's a Democrat member of the House of Representatives.

He's also the author of Dignity in a Digital Age.

Rokana, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Well, I'm a fan and it's an honour to be on.

So the topic we're going to talk about today is Dignity in the Digital Age.

Could you just say briefly what you mean by Dignity here?

Sure.

Dignity just means that every person has intrinsic worth and if you believe that every person

has intrinsic worth, then the political project requires us to consider what that entails

both from a economic perspective in terms of respecting their worth as part of an economy

and from a citizenship perspective in terms of respecting every person's worth in terms

of their citizenship.

So why is that a special issue in the digital age?

Well, of course this has been an age old issue but the question becomes if you believe

on an economic perspective that part of respecting people's worth economically is to give them

the opportunity for productive work, to give them the opportunity to produce and create

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