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First Amendment & defamation lawyer. Lead Counsel for Tech Policy @theFIREorg. Illini/music junkie/oofnik. Tweets are my own. https://t.co/F6NjdYqLaQ

Aug 16, 2024, 6 tweets

If only someone had counseled people to take a deep breath and not panic over speculative fears that have not been borne out in a single election cycle.

Oh wait. I did.

politico.com/news/2024/08/1…

I did it when I testified in the U.S. Senate: techfreedom.org/wp-content/upl…

I did it for the Senate's AI Insight Forum on Elections: techfreedom.org/wp-content/upl…

I did here, when Darrell West from Brookings played the greatest hits of terrible First Amendment takes: aricohn.substack.com/p/ai-panic-is-…

Oh yea and also here alongside a whole bunch of other civil liberties orgs:

We love, and I mean LOVE, to panic about stuff that there's no evidence is actually happening in this country.

You'd think we'd have learned by now.

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