Thread by @didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges: Technology
🇺🇸Only one party will recommit the United States to the principles of an open internet, including net neutrality 1/9

#Democrats believe that American diplomatic leadership is critical to maximizing the benefits of technological innovation while minimizing its risks and dislocations. 2/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology

We have a stake in bridging the gap between the pace of innovation and the development of rules of the road governing the most consequential domains of technology, from cyberspace to artificial intelligence to synthetic biology. 3/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology

#Democrats will avoid a race to the bottom, where countries hostile to democratic values shape our future. 4/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology

Instead, #Democrats will mobilize public and private actors to ensure that new products and new discoveries are bound by law, ethics, and civil liberties protections that enable democratic societies to thrive and prosperity to be shared broadly. 5/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology

#Democrats will recommit the United States to the principles of an open internet, including net neutrality, and vigorously oppose efforts to digitally silo off countries and populations from the rest of the world. 6/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology #NetNeutrality

#Democrats believe that algorithms and platforms should empower people instead of the surveillance state. 7/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology

#Democrats expect technology companies and social media platforms to take responsibility and do more to preserve the openness of democratic societies and identify foreign disinformation, 8/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology #disinformation

...especially including paid efforts to influence American elections through advertising or coordinated inauthentic behavior, and we will take steps to prevent the use of new technologies to facilitate repression,spread hate, or incite violence. 9/9 #DemPartyPlatform #technology