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From the Rocky Mountains to the French Alps

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Ed Jarvis, Thought Leadership Manager for Power Systems, grew up in Minnesota and Colorado. “A writer at heart,” he loves traveling the world with his wife. He joined Schneider through an acquisition of the company he was working for in 2011. Since that day, Ed stayed with the company but left the U.S. to make a home in France. Natalia Pachón: How has your career evolved since the day you joined the company? Ed Jarvis: I was working for a much smaller company that was acquired by Schneider Electric. I began there as a Technical Writer on a product development team that made software for utility companies. Shortly after the acquisition, Schneider’s leadership team visited us in Fort Collins, Colorado. They had a series of interesting messages to share, including that within this multinational organization, “all things were possible,” including a strong internal mobility program. This was music to my ears because as much as I treasure the Colorado lifestyle, my wife and I love travel...

EFF: TOSsed Out: Highlighting the Effects of Content Rules Online

TOSsed Out: Highlighting the Effects of Content Rules Online Today we are launching TOSsed Out , a new iteration of EFF’s longstanding work in tracking and documenting the ways that Terms of Service (TOS) and other speech moderating rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services. As a result of these practices, posts are deleted and accounts banned, harming those for whom the Internet is an irreplaceable forum to express ideas, connect with others, and find support. TOSsed Out continues in the vein of Onlinecensorship.org , which EFF launched in 2014 to collect reports from users in an effort to encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability as they regulate speech. TOSsed Out will highlight the myriad ways that all kinds of people are negatively affected by these rules and their uneven enforcement. Last week the White House launched a tool for people to report incidents of “censorship” on social media, following...