Today, Lawfare is unveiling our new page to track Section 230 reform legislation—a project in collaboration with Center on Tech Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. Matt Perault and Quinta Jurecic explain why we are following these proposals: lawfaremedia.org/article/why-we…

The TikTok ban-or-divest bill will be law tomorrow, Wed., April 24th. The 270 day clock will begin running then. This would mean TikTok could potentially be shuttered *before* inauguration day, 2025. (There is a further 90 day reprieve that the Biden Administration could give.)

People who watch *the exact same* video of a protest often come to radically different conclusions.

People's views of protestors and the police depend on the congruence of the protestors’ positions with the subjects’ own worldview jstor.org/stable/41511108

🚨NYC Housing and Tenant rights advocates🚨

If you know any good organizations, attorneys, or firms who represent tenants on rent stabilization issues please let me know!
Trying to find help for a group of tenants whose LL is trying to de-rent stabilize a building.

Fantastic work on this from Shelby Grossman Riana Pfefferkorn [email protected] Renee DiResta and everyone at the Stanford Internet Observatory team.

Really important work here.

Congratulations Robert Gorwa | @[email protected]! So pleased this is out in the world!

Turns out it’s possible to not charge the public $3.65 a page for public records

Digital Empires: The Global Battle To Regulate Technology: @AnuBradford Stigler Center tinyurl.com/mukj2md8 Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 Marietje Schaake Daphne Keller James Bessen Reg Saddler Quinta Jurecic Kate Klonick Rob van Kranenburg Moshe Vardi craig newmark Craig Calhoun peter pomerantsev

Here's the letter that Knight First Amendment Institute just sent to President Shafik about free speech at Columbia (with corrected URL) knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in…

Mike Pence's NYT op-ed is a perfect example of why I publish Abortion, Every Day: His column uses pretty much every language trick I've warned about for the last two years.

He also repeats debunked lies about abortion that I sort of can't believe made it past a fact-checker

With the Senate about to pass the TikTok ban/divestment bill, some thoughts in Lawfare on the FIrst Amendment implications. Short version: The level of constitutional scrutiny doesn't matter. And the main issue is Chinese influence, not data privacy. lawfaremedia.org/article/five-o…

I'm so tired of being in rooms where people whisper about the absolute ARMY of Big Tech-funded people (most, but not all, ex-Googlers) that have popped up in nearly every corridor in DC where people are working on literally anything to do with AI. So let's talk about it! 1/12

Good piece by David Evans on why excessive regulation is harming the European digital economy. This is why it is so important that our eyes in the USA be on the rollout of the DMA. Until now, the EU has provided too many examples of what not to do. pymnts.com/opinion/2024/w…

You should listen to this episode of the Legality podcast so you can also enjoy the story of Scott Shapiro getting roasted by Ronald Dworkin to an audience of jurisprudes.

Highly recommend the rebuttal of Dworkin’s characterisation of positivism too.

Musk comes out against a TikTok ban, even though a ban would likely benefit X. (The bill would require divestiture, failing which, it would impose a ban. TikTok seems to suggest that it would likely lead to a ban.)

A great way to produce more while understanding less. nature.com/articles/s4158…

I feel genuinely bad for the Columbia Law Review students who put together a really cool call for papers about the law of protest and then had their university administration turn the entire campus into a simulation of the topic