This is disconcerting, because they are right, Germany is asking social media platforms to decide what is hate speech and what is not, like that’s an easy thing to do. And they have actual laws on the books about what is hate speech. How will they determine what hate speech is in other countries where…
This is interesting: “Justice Elena Kagan noted that President Donald Trump, every governor and every member of Congress has a Twitter account. “So this has become a crucially important channel of political communication,” Kagan said. “And a person couldn’t go onto those sites and find out what these members of our government are thinking or…
“This sounds as though it’s modeled on similar arrangements around child pornography. Except that there are some major differences between child pornography and “terrorist content.” The first is that child porn is de facto illegal. “Terrorist content” is quite frequently perfectly legal. It’s also much more of a judgment call. And based on this setup,…
“So what kind of “hate speech” on social media is now leading to Russians being sent to prison? Apparently anyone criticizing Russia’s involvement in Ukraine: Several months after his arrest, Bubeyev pleaded guilty to inciting hatred toward Russians and was sentenced to a year in prison. His offense was sharing articles, photos and videos from…
“Once again, it appears the only way to make our nation’s intelligence oversight committees care about surveillance is to include them in the “fun.” Unfortunately, our elected officials aren’t any better than most Americans. It’s all fun and games to violate the privacy, or prevent the practice of free speech, or other Constitutional freedoms when…
Majority of Democrats, 37 percent of GOP want to repeal the First Amendment. This is absolutely frightening to me. It’s also sad that we have reached a point, as a society, where we only want to be so comfortable with our own ideas, and not challenged by other ideas, that we’d be willing to give…
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