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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Profile picture
@senatorshoshana
Aug 23, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This should send shivers

Haughton had no criminal record, lost both of his jobs.

“They messed up my life. I want the world to know that the system is not right. If I didn’t have strong people around me, they would probably leave me in jail. You’re lost in the system”
@ByLynhBui
@ByLynhBui "Months after his release, he is only now fully rebuilding his life after the setback devastated him and his family of six children."
@ByLynhBui "Twenty days after his arrest, a state police lab test looking for drugs in the bottles came up negative. Yet the 45-year-old father sat behind bars for two more months total before the last of the charges were dropped after a second all-clear in a federal lab test."
Sometimes, government will just ruin an innocent person's life because of honey.

In America.
Lotta reasons I love my job, among them is #cjreform and reforming stupid regs that send people into jail and/or poverty, or other loss of liberty. This enrages me

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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Profile picture
Aug 1
NEW from me: U.K.’s Online Safety Act Censors the Internet—A Preview of U.S. Proposals

If you're worried about platforms censoring content until you upload your ID or face scan, we have plenty of that in the U.S. too

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Online Safety Act is huge, but I explore just a few relevant provisions.

Social media and search engines are required to prevent minors from accessing content deemed “harmful”—which has an extremely broad definition. It includes not only pornography, but also violent and hateful content.
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Profile picture
Apr 15
Finally reading the Arkansas social media law opinion

Act 689 "burdens social media access for all Arkansans—both adults and minors whose parents would allow them to use social media. Requiring adult users to produce state-approved documentation to prove their age and/or submit to biometric age-verification testing imposes significant burdens on adult access to constitutionally protected speech and “discourage[s] users from accessing [the regulated] sites.” Reno, 521 U.S. at 856. Age-verification schemes like those contemplated by Act 689 “are not only an additional hassle,” but “they also require that website visitors forgo the anonymity otherwise available on the internet.” Am. Booksellers Found. v. Dean, 342 F.3d 96, 99 (2d Cir. 2003); see also ACLU v. Mukasey, 534 F.3d 181, 197 (3d Cir. 2008) (finding age-verification requirements force users to “relinquish their anonymity to access protected speech”)"Image
"The Court would note that “harmful to minors” is not a category of unprotected speech"

netchoice.org/wp-content/upl…
"The Court agrees that the ageverification requirement will deter adults from speaking or receiving protected speech on social media."
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Profile picture
Aug 29, 2023
MY LATEST in my series on why age verification legislation can't work:

Age-verification laws don’t exempt VPN traffic. But that traffic can’t always be detected.

It's an *impossible* task once you consider VPNs.
Wrote this one with @RSI @CanyonBrimhall!rstreet.org/commentary/age…
One issue that has not been examined closely yet is how these laws would impact virtual private networks (VPNs). We interviewed various stakeholders around VPNs including VPN blockers, a cybersecurity scholar and a partner at a digital media firm
Obviously, age-verification laws would force platforms to identify the age of their users in each specific area—Utah’s laws apply to residents in Utah, Arkansas’ laws apply to residents in Arkansas, U.S. law would apply to U.S. residents, and so on.
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Profile picture
May 16, 2023
I'm genuinely furious. Open AI is at the top now. I love their tech. Now they're lobbying for licensing which will effectively halt new innovation except from... them. Or other top firms. This is atrocious, blatant rent seeking. I study licensing and I work on tech policy /1
And this is a horrible marriage of the worst of both. Licensing is a massive barrier to entry that stops new entrants. Sam knows this. He knows EXACTLY what he's saying.
AI is already being used to treat and detect cancer more effectively. It has endless incredible applications, most of which haven't even been thought of yet. This is blatant anticompetitiveness and atrocious behavior from people who could have pushed for more innovation
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Profile picture
May 16, 2023
This is fucking asinine and all this will do will limit ... tech development to the wealthy. This is a terrible idea, it's protectionist, and it's worth condemnation
"closed AI"
@BasedMikeLee :(
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Apr 20, 2023
This is a REALLY good article on a subject I'm really interested in: Trying to find the line between agreeing to govt demands/censorship and allowing people of a country more freedom through tech. There IS a line and some give is worth it, but where and how much is hard to say /1
Like this statement from the Midjourney CEO nails that he's thinking about it (even if he gets it wrong)

“Political satire in china is pretty not-okay... the ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire.”
"Tech companies’ desire to remain accessible to the Chinese market will surprise no one, but Midjourney goes further than most of its peers. Instead of restricting political expression for the program’s users in China, it restricts such expression for all of its global users."
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