Expertise corporations present a lot of the important infrastructure of the fashionable state and develop merchandise that have an effect on elementary rights. Search and social media corporations, for instance, have set de facto norms on privateness, whereas facial recognition and predictive policing software program utilized by regulation enforcement companies can comprise racial bias.
On this episode of Deep Tech, Marietje Schaake argues that nationwide regulators aren’t doing sufficient to implement democratic values in expertise, and it’ll take a world effort to struggle again. Schaake—a Dutch politician who was a member of the European parliament and is now worldwide coverage director at Stanford College’s Cyber Coverage Heart—joins our editor-in-chief, Gideon Lichfield, to debate how selections made within the pursuits of enterprise are dictating the lives of billions of individuals.
Additionally this week, we get the most recent on the hunt to find an air leak aboard the Worldwide Area Station—which has grown bigger in current weeks. Elsewhere in area, new findings recommend there’s much more liquid water on Mars than we thought. It’s situated in deep underground lakes and there’s an opportunity it might be house to Martian life. Area reporter Neel Patel explains how we would discover out.
Again on Earth, the US election is heating up. Information reporter Tate Ryan-Mosley breaks down how applied sciences like microtargeting and information analytics have improved since 2016.
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Gideon Lichfield: There’s a state of affairs enjoying out onboard the Worldwide Area Station that feels like one thing out of Star Trek…
Pc: WARNING. Hull breach on deck one. Emergency pressure fields inoperative.
Crewman: Everyone out. Go! Go! Go!
*alam blares*
Gideon Lichfield: Properly, it’s not fairly that dangerous. However there is an air leak within the area station. It was found a couple of 12 months in the past, however in the previous couple of weeks, it’s gotten greater. And whereas NASA says it’s nonetheless too small to hazard the crew… properly… additionally they nonetheless can’t fairly work out the place the leak is.
Elsewhere in area, new findings recommend there’s much more liquid water on Mars than we thought. It’s deep in underground lakes. There would possibly even be life in there. The query is—how will we discover out?
Right here on Earth, in the meantime, the US election is heating up. We’ll take a look at how applied sciences like microtargeting and information analytics have improved since 2016. Which means campaigns can tailor messages to voters extra exactly than ever.
And, lastly, we’ll discuss to certainly one of Europe’s main thinkers on tech regulation, who argues that democratic nations want to start out approaching it in a wholly new approach.
I’m Gideon Lichfield, editor-in-chief of MIT Expertise Assessment, and this is Deep Tech.
The Worldwide Area Station at all times loses a tiny little bit of air, and it’s had a small leak for a couple of 12 months. However in August, Mission Management observed air stress on board the station was dropping—an indication the leak was increasing.
The crew had been advised to hunker down in a single module and shut the doorways between the others. Mission Management would then have a go at pressurizing every sealed module to find out the place the leak was.
As our area reporter Neel Patel writes, this course of went on for weeks. They usually didn’t discover the leak. Till, one evening…
Neel Patel: On September twenty eighth, in the course of the evening, the astronauts are woken up. Two cosmonauts and one astronaut which are at the moment on the ISS. And mission management tells them, “Hey, we expect we all know the place the leak is, lastly. You guys should go to the Russian facet of the station within the Svezda module and begin poking round and seeing if you could find it.”
Gideon Lichfield: Okay. And they also received up they usually received within the, within the module they usually went and poked round. And did they discover it?
Neel Patel: No, they’ve nonetheless not discovered that leak but. This stuff take somewhat little bit of time. It’s, you realize, you may’t precisely simply run round looking out each little wall within the module and, you realize, seeing if there’s somewhat little bit of cool air that is beginning to rush out.
The easiest way for the astronauts to search for the leak is somewhat ultrasonic leak detector. That sort of spots frequencies that air may be dashing out. And that is a sign of the place there may be some airflow the place there should not be. And it is actually only a matter of holding that leak detector as much as form of each little crevice and figuring out if issues are, you realize, not the best way they need to be.
Gideon Lichfield: In order I discussed earlier, the area station at all times leaks somewhat bit. What made this one large enough to be worrying?
Neel Patel: So..the.. you realize, like I mentioned earlier than, the air stress was dropping somewhat bit. That is a sign that the outlet isn’t steady, that there may be one thing unsuitable, that there may allegedly be some sort of cracks that had been rising.
And if that is the case, it signifies that the hull of the spacecraft at that time is somewhat bit unstable. And if the leak isn’t taken care of as quickly as potential, if the cracks are usually not repaired, as quickly as potential, issues may develop and develop and ultimately attain some extent the place one thing would possibly break. Now, that is a fairly distant chance, however you do not take possibilities up in area.
Gideon Lichfield: Proper. And likewise you are shedding air and air is valuable…
Neel Patel: Proper. And on this occasion, there was sufficient air leaking that there began to be considerations from each the Russian and US sides that they might must ship in additional oxygen ahead of later.
And, you realize, the best way area operations work, you’ve issues deliberate over for years upfront. And naturally, you realize, you continue to have a leak to fret about.
Gideon Lichfield: So how do leaks truly get began on one thing just like the ISS?
Neel Patel: In order that’s an excellent query. And there are a pair methods for this to occur. Again in 2018, there was a two millimeter gap discovered on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
That was very worrisome and nobody understood initially how that leak would possibly’ve shaped. Ultimately it was decided {that a} drilling error throughout manufacturing in all probability precipitated it. That sort of leak was truly form of excellent news as a result of it meant that, with a drilling gap, issues are steady. There are not any sort of like aberrant cracks that would, you realize, get greater and begin to result in an even bigger destruction within the hull. In order that was truly excellent news then, however different kinds of leaks are principally regarded as attributable to micro meteoroids.
Issues in area are flying round at. Over 20,000 miles per hour, which suggests even the tiniest little object, even the tiniest little grain or mud may you realize, simply whip a really huge gap contained in the hull of the area station.
Gideon Lichfield: Okay so these are micro meteoroids which are in all probability inflicting these sorts of leaks, however clearly there’s additionally a rising downside of area particles. Bits of spacecraft and junk that we have been thrown up into orbit that’s posing a menace.
Neel Patel: Completely area particles is an issue. It is solely getting worse and worse with yearly. Most likely the most important, most excessive profile, incident that precipitated probably the most area particles in historical past was the 2009 crash between two satellites, Iridium 33 and cosmos 2251. That was the primary and solely satellite tv for pc crash between two operational satellites that we all know of to this point. And the issue with that crash is it ended up creating tons and tons of particles that had been lower than 10 centimeters in size. Now objects better than 10 centimeters are tracked by the Air Power, however something smaller than 10 centimeters is just about undetectable to this point. That signifies that, you realize, any of those little objects which are below 10 centimeters, which is, you realize, a number of various things are threats to the ISS. And as I discussed earlier than on the velocity that these items are operating at, they may trigger large destruction for the ISS or some other spacecraft in orbit.
Gideon Lichfield: So it is principally a big gamble? Yeah? They’re simply hoping that none of those bits crashes into it, as a result of if it does, there’s nothing they’ll do to identify it or cease it.
Neel Patel: No, our radar applied sciences are getting higher. So we’re capable of spot smaller and smaller objects, however that is nonetheless an enormous downside that so many consultants have been attempting to lift alarms about.
And sadly, the form of officers that be, that management, you realize, how we handle the area atmosphere nonetheless have not come to a consensus about what we wish to do about this, what sort of requirements we wish to implement and the way we are able to scale back the issue.
Gideon Lichfield: So… They nonetheless have not discovered this leak. So what is going on on now?
Neel Patel: Okay. So based on a NASA spokesperson quote, there have been no important updates on the leak since September thirtieth. Roscosmos, the Russian area company, launched data that additional remoted the leak to the switch chamber of the Svezda service module. The investigation continues to be ongoing and poses no quick hazard to the crew.
Gideon Lichfield: All proper, leaving Earth orbit for a bit. Let’s go to Mars. Individuals have been in search of water on Mars for a very long time, and you latterly reported that there may be extra liquid water on Mars than we initially thought. Inform us about this discovery.
Neel Patel: So in 2018, a bunch of researchers used radar observations that had been made by the European Area Company’s Mars Specific orbiter to find out that there was a large, subsurface lake sitting 1.5 kilometers beneath the floor of Mars beneath the glaciers close to the South pole. The lake is big. It is virtually 20 kilometers lengthy and is, you realize, liquid water. We’re not speaking concerning the frozen stuff that is sitting on the floor. We’re speaking about liquid water. Two years later, the researchers have come again to much more of that radar information. And what they discovered is that neighboring that physique of water may be three different lakes. Additionally close by, additionally sitting a kilometer underground.
Gideon Lichfield: So how does this water keep liquid? I imply Mars is fairly chilly, particularly across the poles.
Neel Patel: So the reply is salt. It is suspected that these our bodies of waters have been capable of exist in a liquid type for therefore lengthy, regardless of the frigid temperatures, as a result of they’re simply caked in a number of salt. Salts, as you would possibly know, can considerably decrease the freezing level of water. On Mars it is thought that there may be calcium, magnesium, sodium, and different salt deposits.
These have been discovered across the globe and it is possible that these salts are additionally present contained in the lakes. And that is what allowed them to have stayed as liquid as an alternative of a stable for therefore lengthy.
Gideon Lichfield: So what would it not take to get to those underground lakes? If we may truly be on Mars and what would possibly we discover after we received there?
Neel Patel: These lakes, as I’ve talked about, are sitting not less than one kilometer typically additional, deeper, underground. Uh, there’s probably not an opportunity that any sort of future Martian explorers within the subsequent era or two are going to have the kind of gear which are gonna permit them to drill all the best way that deep.
Which isn’t actually an issue for these future colonists. There’s loads of floor ice on the Martian poles that is simpler to reap in case they wish to create ingesting water or, you realize, flip that into hydrogen oxygen, rocket gasoline.
The vital factor to consider is do these underground lakes maybe possess Martian life. As we all know on Earth, life can exist in some very excessive situations and it is, you realize, not less than a non zero likelihood that these lakes maybe additionally possess the identical form of excessive microbes that may survive these sorts of frigid temperatures and salty environments.
Gideon Lichfield: Alright so perhaps we do not wish to attempt to drink this water, however it might be nice if we may discover it to search out out if there’s actually life there. So is there any prospect that any present or future area mission may get to these leaks and discover that out?
Neel Patel: No, not anytime quickly. Drilling gear may be very large, very heavy. There is no approach you are going to have the ability to correctly match one thing like that on a spacecraft. That is going to Mars. However a technique we would be capable to examine the lakes is by measuring the seismic exercise across the South pole.
If we had been to put a small little Lander on the floor of Mars, have it drill just a bit methods into the bottom. It may measure the vibrations popping out of Mars. It may use these, use that information to characterize how large the lakes are, what their form may be. And by extension, we could possibly use that information to find out, you realize, how… in what areas of the lakes life would possibly exist and, you realize, work out the place we wish to probe subsequent for additional examine.
Gideon Lichfield: Expertise has been an more and more vital a part of political campaigns within the US, significantly since Barack Obama used micro-targeting and large information to rework the best way that he campaigned. With each election since then, the strategies have gotten an increasing number of subtle. And in her newest story for MIT expertise assessment, Tate Ryan-Mosley seems to be at a few of the methods during which the campaigns this time spherical are segmenting and focusing on voters much more strategically than earlier than. So Tate, are you able to information us by way of what’s new and improved and the way issues have modified for the reason that 2016 election?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: Yeah. So I’ve recognized sort of 4 key continuations of tendencies which have began and in prior presidential elections, and all, sort of all the tendencies are pushing in the direction of this type of new period of campaigning the place all the messages, the positioning, the presentation of their candidates is actually being, you realize, personalised for every particular person particular person in america. And so, the important thing issues driving which are actually, you realize, information acquisition. So the quantity of information that these campaigns have on each particular person in america. One other new factor is information exchanges which is sort of the structural mechanism by which all of this information is aggregated and shared and used.
After which the best way that that information sort of will get pushed into the sector and into technique is after all microtargeting. And this 12 months, you realize, we’re seeing campaigns make use of issues with rather more granularity, like utilizing SMS as one of many fundamental communication instruments to succeed in potential voters. Really importing lists of profile names into social media web sites. And lastly, sort of a giant shift in 2020 is a extra clear transfer away from sort of the normal opinion polling mechanisms into AI modeling. So as an alternative of getting, you realize, these large polling corporations name a bunch of individuals and attempt to get a way of the heartbeat of the election, you are actually seeing AI being leveraged to foretell the outcomes of elections and particularly segments.
Gideon Lichfield: So let’s break a few these issues down. One of many areas that you just talked about is information exchanges, and there is a firm that you just write about in your story referred to as Information Belief. Are you able to inform us a bit about who they’re and what they do?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: So information belief is the Republican’s sort of fundamental information aggregation expertise. And so what it permits them to do is gather information on all potential voters, host that information, analyze the information, and really share it with, politically aligned PACs, 501(c)(3)’s and 501(c)(4)’s. And beforehand due to FEC rules, you are not allowed to sort of cross that wall between marketing campaign and 501(c)(3)’s, 501(c)(4)’s and PACs. And the best way that these information exchanges are arrange is it is enabling information sharing between these teams.
Gideon Lichfield: How does that not cross the wall?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: Proper. So principally the, what they are saying is the information is anonymized to the purpose that you do not know the place the information is coming from. And that’s sort of the best way that they have been capable of skirt the foundations. The Democrats truly sued the Republicans after the 2016 election, after which they misplaced. And so what’s actually notable is that this 12 months the Democrats have created their very own information trade, which known as DDX. And so that is the primary 12 months that the Democrats may have any kind of comparable expertise. And for the reason that Democrats have come on-line, they’ve truly collected over 1 billion information factors, which is a number of information.
Gideon Lichfield: So these information exchanges permit principally a marketing campaign and everybody that’s aligned with it, supporting it, to share all the identical information. And what’s that enabling them to try this they could not do earlier than?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: Yeah,that is an excellent query. And what it is actually doing is it is sort of enabling a number of effectivity and the best way that voters are being reached. So there’s a number of double spend on voters who’re already determined. So for instance, the Trump marketing campaign may be reaching out to a selected, you realize, voter that has already been determined by a bunch just like the NRA to be, you realize, conservatively aligned and really prone to vote for Trump. However the Trump marketing campaign does not know that of their information set. So this may allow the Trump marketing campaign to not spend cash reaching out to that particular person. And it makes sort of the effectivity and the comprehensiveness of their outreach sort of subsequent degree.
Gideon Lichfield: So let’s speak about micro-targeting. The well-known instance of micro-targeting after all, is Cambridge Analytica, which illicitly acquired a bunch of individuals’s information from Fb within the 2016 marketing campaign, after which claimed that it may design actually particular messages aimed toward hundreds of thousands of American voters. And lots of people, I believe referred to as that skill into query, proper. However the place are we now with microtargeting?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: There’s sort of this false impression round the best way during which microtargeting is impactful. What Cambridge Analytica claimed to do was use information about individuals’s opinions and personalities to profile them and create messages that had been actually prone to persuade an individual a couple of particular situation at a selected time. And that is sort of what’s been debunked. That, you realize, political adverts, political messages are usually not truly considerably extra persuasive now than they’ve ever been. And actually you may’t show it. There is no option to attribute a vote to a selected message or a selected advert marketing campaign.
Tate Ryan-Mosley: So what’s actually turn into the consensus about, you realize, why micro-targeting is vital is that it will increase the polarization of the voters or the potential voters. So principally it is actually good at figuring out already determined voters and making them both extra cell. So you realize, extra vocal about their trigger and their place or bringing them more and more into the laborious line and even getting them to donate. So we noticed this beautiful clearly with the Trump campaigns app that they’ve put out this 12 months.
So there’s a number of surveillance sort of constructed into the construction of the app that’s meant to micro goal their very own supporters. and the rationale they’re doing that’s that is sort of seen because the primary fundraising mechanism. If we are able to persuade any individual who agrees with Trump to get actually impassioned about Trump, that actually means, which means cash.
Gideon Lichfield: Let’s speak about one other factor, which is polling. After all, the issue with polling that we noticed within the 2016 election was individuals do not reply their telephones anymore and doing an correct opinion ballot is getting tougher and tougher. So how is expertise serving to with that downside?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: So what’s getting used is now AI modeling, which principally takes a bunch of information and spits out a prediction about how seemingly an individual is both to point out as much as vote, to vote in a selected approach, or to really feel a sure approach a couple of specific situation. and so these AI fashions they’re additionally utilized in 2016 and it is value noting in 2016, AI fashions had been about as correct as conventional opinion polls by way of, you realize, actually not predicting that Trump was going to win. However you realize, as the information richness will get higher, as information will get extra, you realize, turns into extra actual time, as the standard improves, we’re seeing an elevated accuracy in AI modeling that sort of is signifying. It is prone to take, you realize, an increasing number of, turn into an even bigger a part of how polling is finished.
Gideon Lichfield: So what we’re seeing is that this election represents a brand new degree in using applied sciences that we have seen over the previous decade or extra, which are us the flexibility, or giving campaigns the flexibility to focus on individuals ever extra exactly to share information about individuals extra extensively and use it extra effectively. In addition to to foretell which approach voters are going to go rather more reliably. So what does all this add as much as? What are the implications for our politics?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: What we’re actually seeing as is sort of a fragmentation of marketing campaign messaging and the flexibility to sort of scale these fragments and people silos up. And so what’s taking place is it is turning into considerably simpler for campaigns to say various things, to completely different teams of individuals and that sort of skirts a few of the norms that we now have and in public opinion and civic discourse round mendacity round, you realize, switching positions round distortion which have prior to now actually been capable of examine public figures.
Gideon Lichfield: As a result of politicians can say one factor to at least one group of individuals, a totally completely different factor to a unique group. And the 2 teams do not know that they are being fed completely different messages.
Tate Ryan-Mosley: Precisely. So, you realize, the Biden marketing campaign can simply ship out a textual content message to a small group of, you realize, 50 individuals in a swing county that say one thing actually particular to their native politics. And most of the people would not ever know, or actually be capable to truth examine them as a result of they simply haven’t got entry to the messages that campaigns are giving, you realize, actually particular teams of individuals.
And in order that’s actually sort of altering the best way that we now have civic discourse. And you realize, it even permits some campaigns to sort of manufacture cleavages within the public. So it could actually truly sort of sport out how they wish to be seen by a particular group of individuals and hit these messages house, you realize, and sort of create cleavage that beforehand wasn’t there or would not be there organically.
Gideon Lichfield: Does that imply that American politics is simply set to turn into irretrievably fragmented?
Tate Ryan-Mosley: I imply, that is completely the priority. What’s fascinating as I’ve talked to some consultants that truly really feel that this would possibly certainly be the top of marketing campaign expertise and personalised campaigns as a result of public opinion is actually shifting on this. So Pew analysis group truly simply did a survey that got here out this month that confirmed that almost all of the American public doesn’t suppose social media platforms ought to permit for any political commercial in any respect.
And the big majority of People consider that political micro-targeting, particularly on social media must be disallowed. And we’re beginning to see that mirrored in Congress. So there are a handful of payments truly which have bipartisan assist which were launched to each the home and the Senate which are looking for to sort of tackle a few of these points. Clearly we cannot see the impression of that earlier than the 2020 election, however a number of consultants are fairly hopeful that we’ll be capable to see some authentic regulation for the upcoming presidential in 2024.
Gideon Lichfield: Tech corporations are setting norms and requirements of every kind that used to be set by governments. That’s the view of Marietje Schaake, who wrote an essay for us not too long ago. Marietje is a Dutch politician who was a member of the European parliament and is now worldwide coverage director at Stanford College’s Cyber Coverage Heart. Marietje, What’s a particular instance of the best way during which the selections that tech corporations have made find yourself successfully setting the norms for the remainder of us?
Marietje Schaake: Properly, I believe an excellent instance is how, for instance, facial recognition methods and even the entire surveillance mannequin of social media and search corporations has set de facto norms compromising the correct to privateness. I imply, if you happen to take a look at how a lot information is collected throughout a variety of companies, the truth that there’s information brokers renders the rights of privateness very, very fragile, if not compromised as such. And so I believe that’s an instance, particularly if there is not any legal guidelines to start with the place the de facto commonplace may be very, very laborious to roll again as soon as it is set by the businesses.
Gideon Lichfield: Proper. So how did we get to this?
Marietje Schaake: Yeah, that is, that is the billion greenback query. And I believe we now have to return to the tradition that went together with the rise of corporations popping out of Silicon Valley that was primarily fairly libertarian. And I believe they, these corporations, these, entrepreneurs, these innovators, might have had good intentions, might have hoped that their innovations and their companies would have a liberating impact they usually can lawmakers that the very best assist that they may give this liberating expertise was to do nothing within the type of regulation. And successfully within the US and within the EU—even when the EU is usually referred to as an excellent regulator—there was very, little or no regulation to protect core ideas like non-discrimination or antitrust in gentle of the huge digital disruptions. And so the success of the libertarian tradition from Silicon Valley, the facility of massive tech corporations now that may foyer in opposition to regulatory proposals explains why we’re the place we’re.
Gideon Lichfield: One of many issues that you just say in your essay is that there are literally two sorts of regulatory regimes on the earth, for tech. There’s the privatized one, in different phrases, in Western nations the tech corporations are actually those setting a number of the foundations for a way the digital area works. After which there’s an authoritarian one which is China, Russia, and different nations the place governments are taking a really heavy handed strategy to regulation. What are the implications then of getting a world during which it’s a alternative between these two regimes?
Marietje Schaake: I believe the online result’s that the resilience of democracy and really the articulation of democratic values, the safeguarding of democratic values, the constructing of establishments has lagged behind. And this comes at a time the place democracy is below stress globally anyway. We will see it in our societies. We will see it on the worldwide stage the place in multilateral organizations, it isn’t a provided that the democracies have nearly all of votes or, or voices. And so all in all it makes democracy and projected out into the long run, the democratic mark on the digital world, very fragile. And that is why I believe there’s purpose for concern.
Gideon Lichfield: Okay. So in your essay, you are proposing an answer to all of this, which is a sort of democratic alliance of countries to create guidelines for tech governance. Why is that needed?
Marietje Schaake: Proper. I believe it is necessary for democracies to work collectively rather more successfully, and to step up their position in creating a democratic governance mannequin of expertise. And I believe it is necessary as a result of with the rising energy of. Firms and their, uh, skill to set requirements and successfully to control the digital world on the one hand.
After which then again, a way more high down management oriented state led mannequin that we might see in States like China and Russia. There, there’s simply an excessive amount of of a vacuum on the a part of democracies. And I believe in the event that they work collectively, they’re in the very best place to deal with cross border corporations and to have an efficient approach of working collectively to guarantee that they leverage their collective scale, primarily.
Gideon Lichfield: Are you able to give an instance of how this democratic coalition would work? What kinds of choices would possibly it take or the place would possibly it set guidelines?
Marietje Schaake: Properly, let me deal with one space that I believe wants a number of work and a focus. And that’s the query of methods to interpret legal guidelines of warfare and armed battle but additionally the preservation of peace and accountability after cyber assaults.
So proper now, as a result of there’s a vacuum within the understanding of how legal guidelines of armed battle and thresholds of warfare apply within the digital world, assaults occur day-after-day. However typically with out penalties. And the notion of accountability, I believe is essential as a part of the rule of regulation to make sure that there’s a sense of justice additionally within the digital world. And so I can very properly think about that on this area that actually must be articulated and formed now with establishments and mechanisms, then the democracies may, may actually deal with that space of warfare, of peace, of accountability.
Gideon Lichfield: So once you say an assault occurs with out penalties, you imply some nation state or some actor launches a cyber assault and no person can agree that it must be handled as an act of warfare?
Marietje Schaake: Precisely. I believe that that’s taking place much more typically than individuals would possibly notice. And in reality, as a result of there’s such a authorized vacuum, it is simple for attackers to form of keep in a zone the place they’ll virtually anticipate that they won’t face any penalties. And a part of that is political. How keen are nations to return ahead and level to a perpetrator. But it surely’s additionally that there is at the moment an absence of correct investigation to make sure that there may be one thing like a trial, you realize, a courtroom of arbitration the place completely different events can, can discuss their facet of the battle and that there can be a ruling by an impartial, judiciary-type of group to guarantee that there’s an evaluation of what occurred however that there is additionally penalties to obviously escalatory habits.
And if the dearth of accountability continues, I worry that it’ll play into the fingers of countries and their proxies. So the present lack of holding to account perpetrators that will launch cyber assaults to realize their geopolitical political and even financial targets may be very pressing. So I’d think about {that a} sort of tribunal or a mechanism of arbitration may actually assist shut this accountability hole.
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