Posts by Jason Thacker

WeeklyTech #110

How can Christians navigate the digital public square?

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/September 20, 2021

My family lives just outside of a small town in Tennessee with a historic downtown district. Like many small towns throughout our nation, we have a downtown square that serves…

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 WeeklyTech #109

Is content moderation stifling public discourse?

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/September 13, 2021

Content moderation is difficult work for any social media company. Every day millions of posts and messages are shared on these platforms, most are benign in nature but as with…

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 WeeklyTech #108

Pornography, ethics, and digital governance

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/September 7, 2021

In last few weeks, there have been a number of developments concerning the availability of pornography on social media. OnlyFans, a social media service that caters to sex workers and…

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 WeeklyTech #107

Why Christians should navigate questions of vaccine mandates and religious exemptions with wisdom

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/August 30, 2021

Between the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in winter 2019 and the subsequent worldwide pandemic that has killed over 4.4 million, the astounding speed at which treatments and vaccines for this deadly…

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 WeeklyTech #106

Deepfakes and the Degradation of Truth

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/August 23, 2021

Charles Spurgeon singing! Frederick Douglass moving! Tom Cruise playing golf on TikTok! If you’ve seen any of these things online, you’ve encountered an amusing and significant new technology: deepfakes. While deepfake technology, powered…

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Jason Thacker Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics

Jason serves as assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and a research fellow in Christian ethics at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He is the author or editor of several books, including "Following Jesus in a Digital Age" and "The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society."