It would be much easier to understand the TikTok "deal" if it weren't so obvious that the insiders leaking about it to the press don't understand the technical details.

I'm all for creative solutions to decentralizing the ad ecosystem, but I think this proposal underestimates just how prickly Wikipedia's community is, and how delicate the relationship is for the org to manage.

What does the future of TikTok in Canada look like now that the Trump administration is taking over its U.S. operations? I spoke to @financialpost.com about the likelihood of a similar deal for Canada (unlikely) or being forced onto the American version (likelier): financialpost.com/technology/w...

In "Falling Far and Fast," Yale Law Dean Robert Post, a leading First Amendment Scholar, writes that "for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered." verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

This white paper from @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social is an extremely helpful explanation of how the media environment has irrevocably shifted away from one in which institutions could wield influence simply by speaking authoritatively. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

I know it was like a thousand scandals ago but Trump is currently violating every previous budget deal they made by impounding congressionally authorized spending. I can’t fathom why that isn’t the beginning and end of every negotiation on the matter. Your agreements are worthless.

Bill C-2 poses a grave threat to Canadians’ privacy, and is likely unconstitutional to boot. Join us on October 2 at MSVU for a panel discussion about why experts are so troubled by this proposed law.

Come on, Dems. There are ALL sorts of ideas about how to circumvent SCOTUS and the circuits that MAGA has broken. You just have to tune out the deep-in-denial centrists who will be quick to say “this just isn’t how it is done!” without finding a way to fix things.

I’m not an “I told you so” kind of guy. But y’all remember that stupid TikTok ban? I voted No on that one.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

The alumni of this program are a who’s-who across silicon valley. Suspect there aren’t many law students following me here but if there is one in your life who is interested in tech law, they should apply.

everyone should read the double blind studies and reach their own conclusions just like they read bank financial statements to determine institutional stability before making deposits.

I don’t think a marriage dissolves because of ChatGPT without there being at least some serious underlying issues… But at a certain point, this starts to feel like we’re rehashing the same social media debates about addiction and optimizing for engagement, with even more powerful tools.

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

One week left to get your apps in!

Ilya Shapiro was real quick to yell “free speech” when Georgetown, which last I checked was a private university, placed him on leave over racist tweets about Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

I agree with this. It's one thing to see this kind of authoritarian surge in the Philippines or Brazil, but watching it happen in America is jarring. It illustrates the fragility of democratic norms (or, perhaps, the degree to which the digital information ecosystem has hollowed them out).

One critical question - really the critical question - that all Democratic politicians need to be grappling with is what de-Trumpification looks like in practical terms. What is the plan to re-establish America's democratic structure, and permanently reverse the progress towards authoritarianism?

Lots of individuals - students, professors, jurors, lawyers, activists - are fighting tooth and nail against rising authoritarianism. It’s the institutions, and the elites who run them, who are surrendering in order to maintain their privilege or secure some petty personal advantage.

We really ought to start asking more questions about #WhoMakesMoneyFromFacebook 👀

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

It's pure class solidarity: Charlie Kirk looked and sounded like the elite journalists and managers that guide these outlets, much more so than the groups he attacked, so that's where their empathy gravitates.

Reforming and rebuilding our information environment is *the* challenge to ensuring democracy’s survival. But there’s a tension between fragmentation, and concerns about the resulting filter bubbles driving extremism, and consolidation under malevolent anti-democratic forces.

I know we’re through the looking glass at this point, but it’s worth recalling how, for the past decade, the biggest Republican complaint against social media platforms was that they were enforcing hate speech rules in their community guidelines.

Hey check out Clemson's position on FIRE's free speech rankings. They didn't quite crack the top ten, but a pretty good showing nonetheless:

Guys, guys! Kim Brooks just reached out to me directly! I'm pretty sure she wants me to personally mediate and get this whole lockout situation resolved. #KeepDalStrong

Today I joined with 14 of my colleagues from 10 law schools across the country to send a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, and the other leaders in Parliament, expressing grave concerns about Bill C-2, and it's likely impact on privacy and cybersecurity:

It’s too early to tell how this will manifest, but whatever crackdown on opposition is coming will be executed through legal and administrative tools developed under the Bush administration and maintained under Obama and Biden. Citizens in other democracies (including Canada) should take note.

This is the worst moment for academic freedom, and for freedom of expression more broadly, in my lifetime, and it's not a particularly close call.

Deeply disturbing. Missouri is implementing age verification for 18+ sites through its AG. No vote, no legislation, just the Attorney General implementing the policy and forcing AV on its residents www.komu.com/news/state/n...

I think one of the most important things you can do for your mental health is to never watch those videos. Ever. Read descriptions of them, engage with the commentary: but exposing yourself to the actual blood and gore is self-destructive. Everyone who can avoid them should.

Really drives home how everyone who was screaming about free speech on campus a few years ago was either a cynical hypocrite or a gullible mark.

There are certainly different degrees of villainy in how universities have responded to Trump administration pressure, but as of yet there’s really no heroes.

They were literally about to have Charlie Kirk lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda and now that the murderer doesn't line up with their political narrative they'll have moved on before the weekend is up.

y'all I got up before the sun rose to tune into a press conference that told me charlie kirk was killed with a furry sex meme bullet

Just a gentle reminder that white-nationalist “Groypers” like Troy Robinson have long plagued Charlie Kirk’s operations because he wasn’t racist, homophobic or antisemitic enough. www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...

The implication of Twitter’s continuing global influence is a single reactionary billionaire with Nazi-sympathies gets to set the agenda of what issues are and are not worthy of the world’s attention. Ongoing genocides in Sudan and Gaza are a blip, while the world obsesses about a single murder.

Yikes. This article notes that there have been 81 politically motivated murders (excluding hate crimes) in the United States since 2020, and concludes that it’s therefore a relatively minor problem? Are there any other advanced democracies with comparable numbers?

a lot of americans will look at this and ask, why can't we have that kind of accountability here? one reason (among many) that we don't have it: we have excluded ourselves from global jurisprudence that centers accountability, fundamental rights & rule of law. it's like a foreign language.

Omg - someone show this to Jim Jordan! We’ve finally found a smoking gun for his censorship industrial complex.

Uber’s CEO desperately checking how quickly he can express deliver a gold statuette to the White House.

The response to this, from both the administration and from individual extremist actors, is going to be very, very bad: with the latter significantly empowered by the fact that federal law enforcement has abrogated any effort to track or combat far-right violence.

This may not be incitement in the First Amendment sense, but to my ears it sounds like a direct call for retaliatory violence from the biggest news network in the country. And people will absolutely get hurt as a result of this rhetoric.

My mind keeps going back to all the professors who bought into the moral panic about cancel culture on campus and how intolerant woke students are a threat to academic freedom. What a pack of absolute, historically gullible marks.

Solidarity and safety to my @osgoodenews.bsky.social colleague and friend Heidi Matthews who has just set sail aboard the Shireen, the legal support boat of the Global Samud Flotilla, from which she will provide IL expertise for fellow vessels aiming to break the siege in Gaza. May peace come.

Slashing funding to ISED, and to research funding in particular, while massively increasing military spending reflects a 20th century understanding of how our sovereignty is actually maintained.