“A Disney defeat would represent a dangerous reversal in First Amendment jurisprudence and cast a pall of fear over private expression. If Disney loses…America’s first liberty will be at risk, and the culture wars will escalate out of control.” https://t.co/iv8BsuhXWV

@lucywildboots It’s absolutely ageist. It’s also accurate.

Anyone who wants to stop under 18s from using social media is both naive
and dangerous.

Children do not suddenly become an adult and know how the world works. it’s up to US as parents, guardians, teachers, and family members, to ensure the children in our lives can safely explore what it is to grow up.

Moreover, we are the ones who need to create an environment young people feel safe to explore the world in. That means safely discussing issues of the wider world, not hiding them from it.

Young people who are not given access to anything other than what their school/church/parents think they should are more likely to be abused, taken advantage of, and radicalized.

#SocialMedia

Building Burakos Party Leader/Folk Hero and kinda want to rule zero him to Izzit so I can build an alter Jeskai deck around the same abilities that’s Barack Obama, Party Leader/Community Organizer

Duolingo wants to teach me to “use the imperfect” which having just watched the last episode of Picard sounds sort of creepy.

The amazing Mr. @mmasnick has just issued a report on the unintended consequences of internet regulation. I am already underlining.

https://copia.is/library/unintended-consequences/

Free speech going well in Texas I see https://www.wired.com/story/texas-could-push-tech-platforms-to-censor-posts-about-abortion/

Proud to join EFF, CDT, FIRE, AFP-MT, ACLU, and ACLU-MT in opposing Montana's shortsighted and overreaching TikTok ban bill:

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-and-civil-society-groups-urge-montana-house-to-vote-no-on-unconstitutional-bill-banning-tiktok-for-all-montana-residents

@Popehat i mean, this is true, but scam victims are also disproportionately elderly folks with memory & other cognitive problems. Obvious jokes aside, the target marks for Fyre may be a little more resistant to exactly the same scam under exactly the same brand name.

JUST IN: DOJ has filed its reply in support of a stay pending appeal of the Kacsmaryk mifepristone order: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.137.0.pdf

Super excited today to release a research report that I've spent over a year working on, regarding the unintended consequences of internet regulations around the world.

The paper is not an attack on the idea of regulating the internet, but rather calling out how terrible nearly every existing attempt has been, and how much damage each attempt has been towards both competition and speech:
https://copia.is/library/unintended-consequences/

Given what’s happening to Twitter, I have to wonder: is the future for reported social media actually a return to 2000s era blogging, but this time via Substack? Aka slow Twitter/Mastodon?

Ok, my Picard guess: JLP’s “Irumodic Syndrome” was caused by residual Borg nanoprobes undetected when he was deborgified. He passed these on to Jack, and they’re enabling him to create a Borglike networked consciousness. Locutus is behind that red door.

Looking forward to the Mandalorian spinoff series about Bo Katan’s brother in finance, Bo Kaburgher, and her retired mom, Bo Karaton.

@fulanigirl i broke down and paid to skip the ads. A year breaks down to like a quarter a day, which seemed pretty reasonable to learn a language all things considered.

@fulanigirl The little tear is just manipulative. Though also just learned that the French word for “owl” is also slang for “cool”

@fj well that just sounds like a boring hand of poker

@bejohnce Among other methods yeah. Mostly a desire to have a proctastination outlet that’s less wasteful than kenken.

@fulanigirl yup.