Zuckerberg is such a wuss he paid $130m to pretend his company isn’t responsible for major content moderation decisions. nytimes.com/2021/01/24/bus…
The @oversightboard is a total sham. An abdication of Facebook’s responsibility to manage its own damn content. Comprised of elite judges who are as distanced from things like csam, sextortion, online harassment as imaginable.
And “structurally independent” ??
Structurally independent???
Wtf does structurally independent mean??
If you must modify the word independent , are you really independent?? 🥸
This is total barflighting (barfy gaslighting) 🤮 ⛽️ 💡 by Clegg saying yeah, everybody laments how powerful we are here at FB but, jeepers democracy is just too slow in regulating us so we must nobly regulate ourselves.
Hey you f-ing schmucks how about building a product that you can actually handle. And if you are in the NYT complaining how outta control you are and developing faster than regulators can control, just stop paying your lobbyists millions to keep you deregulated.
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Victims of child sexual abuse material can sue. 18 USC 2255
And Kellyanne, there's no "Alternative Facts" defense when it comes to child pornography. #THREAD 1/
Claudia says KA likely obtained the image when KA confiscated Claudia's phone. And she believes KA kept them for a rainy day. Claudia expressed disbelief that KA would have intentionally posted them and conjectures that maybe KA was hacked. 2/
However, the intentional publication isn't a necessary factor b/c it seems clear that KA would have first knowingly distributed and reproduced them for herself and then knowingly retained them. All in violation of 18 USC 2252A. 3/
As more folks are arrested for the insurrection we are going to see high rate of people with records of intimate partner violence, stalking, and harassment. 1/
Terrorizing women and girls and internet trolling is directly correlated to being violent and unreasonable in other facets. including work, friendships, school, family, AND POLITICS. 2/
As my colleague, Caroline said, "Violence against women and girls on the micro level of interpersonal IS TERRORISM designed to uphold patriarchy/male supremacy on the macro level. 3/
Companies that are freezing PAC contributions to both sides are not actually taking a stance against the violent insurrection.
They’re just saving money and being cowards.
Added to the list per New York Law Journal are law firms Squire Patton Boggs and Cozen O’Connor
Proud to say @cagoldberglaw will be targeting our contribution freezes specifically to the PACs that were in any way involved in the insurrection and supporting Trump.
We're one week into the new year. At this time last week, I was procrastinating Tweeting about the @60Minutes piece about Section 230 and figured I'd get to it after my all-staff-beginning-of-year on Tues.
My big takeaways are 1) I'm sad (and not surprised) that Lenny Pozner is so harassed by Sandy Hook conspiracists that he must wear those horrible prosthetics, 2) It's BS that Facebook and Instagram (worth hundreds of billions) rely on
nonprofits like Pozner's HONR to manage violent content.
Many excellent nonprofits in the tech arena (@CCRInitiative , @TheBADASS_army, @TylerClementi ) have sprung out of founders' trauma. It is intoxicating to get invited to participate in innovations on these platforms
Section 230 did not create the internet as we know it. The shift from subscription based profit models to "free" user data-mining and advertising profit models is what created the internet.
It's when the user stopped being the customer and started being the commodity.
Section 230 was extravagantly interpreted so that users could never hold accountable a tech company for harms on the platform. The plain language supports the idea that platforms can't be sued for things like defamation
or editorial decisions. But starting early on, courts interpreted it to also prevent law suits for things like negligence by platforms. And more recently, the Second Circuit said platforms also can't be sued under product
I've been weeping all day today. (So has half our staff) After a 6 1/2 year journey through hell and back, our former client and beloved associate, Annie Schmutz Seifullah, Esq. is officially an attorney licensed to practice law!!!
"Dear Annie,
I’m weeping. I think many of us. We are all so proud of you. You were attacked by a man who was believed by an institution that should have had your back; that should have asked questions before taking action against you. He tried to destroy you. 2/
The media tried to make you into a joke. DOE tried to throw you in the garbage. None of it worked. Everybody underestimated you. None of them were a match for Annie Schmutz Seifullah. And today you transformed all of it – your expertise as an educator, your resilience 3/