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Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

Never have I opted into getting texts faster than I just did for Sea Otter Awareness Week! Thanks, @montereybayaquarium.org 🦦 aware!

Who's going to the Trust and Safety Research Conference next week? BTW, love that the image that goes with this link seems to be from when the fire alarm cleared the building last year!

@normative.bsky.social did you coin the term, "nerd harder"?

Media as content moderators, local TV news edition:

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h... Here are my concluding paras:

Highly recommend this conversation between @kevintfrazier.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, and Anu Bradford to understand the geopolitical backdrop behind today’s clownish “censorship” hearing.

Time to watch @davidakaye.bsky.social explain what REAL censorship is, and how and why we need to fight it, in this circus of a hearing. judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...

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DTSP has launched a new working group on DSA Article 21 out-of-court dispute settlement! Looking forward to engaging with a wide array of stakeholders as part of this effort. cc: @hutko.bsky.social @niklaseder.bsky.social @gateklons.bsky.social @daphnek.bsky.social @mathver.bsky.social

Currently, AI usage is expanding and shaping our daily technologies. In a new WEF blog post, @davidsullivan.bsky.social explains why the fields of responsible AI and trust & safety should collaborate more. www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Community Guidelines consultation closes Aug 28 bsky.social/about/blog/0.... To date, we’ve received 12,000+ responses! 1/6

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New from me and @pielemeier.bsky.social: "Online Safety Regulation: Righting Risks or Risking Rights?" Up on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Forthcoming in "Trust, Safety, and the Internet We Share: Multistakeholder Insights" from the Trust & Safety Foundation and Taylor & Francis

Have there been civil society complaints about the binding commitments that Ali Express entered with the EU Commission to settle its DSA investigation? They look like they were negotiated by someone who didn't read the whole DSA. Particularly Art. 8. 1/ digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

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the analysis in here from people living in encampments is more incisive and direct than a lot of the coverage from national media streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

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The first Digital Services Act systemic risk assessment reports and audits of porn sites are published. 🧐

I assume I don't have to tell anyone on this site to read Mike, but just in case: read Mike!

Today is yet another reminder to always read @emptywheel.bsky.social

People who don’t open the window when taking off, especially from SFO, are absolute psychopaths.

Day 2 at #TrustCon underway, with Kenya Fairley from Bumble reflecting on parallels between T&S and the movement against gender based violence.

Kudos to @charlottewillner.bsky.social for her opening speech at #trustcon calling out how the US government is making the role of trust & safety more dangerous... And how many people couldn't even come to the event because it's not safe to travel to the US.

#TrustCon2025 kicking off with a barn burner of a speech from @charlottewillner.bsky.social

This is what happens when you put 75 folks from VLOPSEs, academia, and civil society in a workshop for 2 days in Brussels to talk all things #digitalservicesact risk assessment and mitigation. They didn't stop being polite, but they did get real...

DTSP's Safe Framework, now a published standard, offers companies a flexible framework to create safer digital environments. On the Ctrl-Alt-Speech, @davidsullivan.bsky.social discusses how it helps companies align with global standards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=znO-...

Always a pleasure to speak to @mmasnick.bsky.social about all things trust and safety, but particularly pleased to share the news about ISO/IEC 25389 with trust and safety pros the week before #TrustCon2025!

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen This week, we talk about AI repositories struggling with people uploading models to generate non-consensual intimate imagery, and the mess that has caused... podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

Friday news dump arrived early this week!

Big news from us today: the DTSP Safe Framework is now an ISO standard for #trustandsafety!

"Today, the Commission has presented guidelines on the protection of minors, as well as a prototype of an age-verification app under the Digital Services Act (DSA) [..] The verification app will be tested and further customised" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Hekka Virkunnen followed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt is not an #IGF2025 lineup I would have predicted...

#IGF2025 opening ceremony kicking off

DTSP Executive Director @davidsullivan.bsky.social is at #IGF2025 in Norway, speaking on genAI in content moderation and co-hosting a side event on rights-respecting online safety standards and regulation.

I’m no aviation geek, but I am pretty excited to fly on this chonk plane today. #a380

“Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

Anyone heading to Oslo for #IGF2025 next week? Let's connect. Here's what @dtspartnership.bsky.social will be up to, among other things...

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I know there are many Brazilians on this platform. Rulings like this may mean that no one is willing to offer social media services in Brazil at all. It gets the equation exactly backwards. apnews.com/article/braz...

It was a pleasure once again teaming up with @thegni.bsky.social to talk human rights and digital risk regulations in Brussels last week. Click through for more details including slides from @ofcom.bsky.social with early observations on online safety act illegal content risk assessments!

On June 3 in Brussels, GNI & @dtspartnership.bsky.social hosted a multistakeholder dialogue on rights-respecting digital regulation, followed by the third annual European Rights & Risks Forum. Thank you to everyone who helped make these events possible. globalnetworkinitiative.org/centering-th...

RIP to the best who ever did it youtu.be/216YJKbber8?...

Now you can call it a come back podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @sirenspod.bsky.social

Looks like @ec.europa.eu extended the deadline for consultation on the #DigitalServicesAct draft guidelines for protection of minors until June 15.

The #Boulder Daily Camera needs to work on its headline writing. FFS.

I co-authored a report about the CyberTipline. Do you know what platforms, NCMEC, & police call CSAM that's (allegedly) shared in outrage? CSAM. Do you know the citation for the "outrage-shares are a defense" portion of the CSAM statutes? There isn't one. BECAUSE IT'S STILL A FUCKING CRIME.

Come for the #digitalrights #jobs, stay for me sharing a few thoughts about how I got involved in technology and human rights, how to navigate an increasingly fraught field, and the people, organizations, and resources I've learned from and rely on regularly.

It’s back! (In part) www.usip.org