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Aug 16 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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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…
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I did it when I testified in the U.S. Senate: techfreedom.org/wp-content/upl…
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I did it for the Senate's AI Insight Forum on Elections: techfreedom.org/wp-content/upl…
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I did here, when Darrell West from Brookings played the greatest hits of terrible First Amendment takes: aricohn.substack.com/p/ai-panic-is-…
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Oh yea and also here alongside a whole bunch of other civil liberties orgs:
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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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Jan 31
Senate Judiciary is having a hearing today on "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis," in which senators will yell at a bunch of social media platform CEOs and likely say some very wrong things. Follow along in this thread, if you dare.

judiciary.senate.gov/committee-acti…
2/ Durbin kicks off by showing a video from victims of online CSE and their parents. Undeniably horrible stories, and if the hearing really focuses exclusively on platform efforts to combat CSE/CSAM, I'll be on board--platforms SHOULD be doing more.

But that's unlikely.
3/ And not for nothing, Durbin's STOP CSAM Act swings the pendulum too far, threatening end-to-end encryption and incentivizing takedowns of lawful content and campaigns of false reporting. EFF has a good explainer: eff.org/deeplinks/2023…
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Aug 8, 2023
1/ I must respectfully take issue with this piece, for a few reasons.

First, as a normative matter, to mee it comes too close to equating the harms of CSAM with the effects of minors looking at porn. Whatever you think about the latter, the former is *inestimably* worse.
2/ Second, the "secondary effects doctrine" is a heaping MESS that gives government an end-run around the First Amendment, even for non-porn speech. Expanding it to the online world rather than physical locations would be terrible.

SED should be retired, not broadened.
3/ Third, there is no distinction between the age verification mandates being proposed now, and the ones struck down in the Great COPA Wars, practically or constitutionally.

The curtailment was in fact being forced to verify your identity before accessing disfavored content. Image
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Jun 30, 2023
1/ So @MiamiSeaquarium, which tortures Orcas by keeping them in confined spaces, have filed suit because Phil published drone pictures and criticized them.

It's evident that they didn't like being criticized, and are trying to shut him up.

Complaint: https://t.co/EwdXgkcQOvtinyurl.com/muhbjzr7
2/ I'm no expert in Bird Law, so the claims involving drones are not in my wheelhouse.

But @MiamiSeaquarium also alleged defamation (a good indicator of SLAPPiness)--kind of.

It seems that their lawyers are not entirely competent. This is the entirety of the defamation count:
@MiamiSeaquarium 3/ This is plainly a deficient pleading. Why?

Because notice what's missing: any identification of the allegedly defamatory statements.

You can't just waltz into court and say "they said defamatory things." You have to actually say what those things were.
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Jun 16, 2023
1/ On Wednesday @TechFreedomfiled an amicus brief with the 6th Circuit in Johnson v. @kathygriffin.

Our PR and the brief can be found here: techfreedom.org/protect-intern…

In case you're unfamiliar with the litigation, let me refresh your memory & explain why it's important.
2/ In April 2021, a video started circulating on social media showing a man accosting a teen taking pre-prom pictures with his boyfriend at a hotel restaurant, because the teen was wearing a dress.

Super normal stuff.

When Kathy saw the video, she tweeted about it a few times.
3/ In her first tweet, she identified the man as Sam Johnson, and noted that he worked at VisuWell, a telehealth software company from what I gather.

A couple tweets later, VisuWell announced Johnson's firing. Griffin asked if he was going to remain on the board. They said no.
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May 24, 2023
Oh hey, did you know that you can wreck a @Target display and doing that enough will get them to pull the products you're vandalizing about? Image
The War on Christmas is gonna be EPIC this year. Get ready, @Target!
@AskTarget how many people, exactly, need to trash your terrible produce section before you cede ground and stop trying to sell mushy apples?
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May 21, 2023
I'm sorry that you don't believe that people accused of crimes deserve legal representation and for the state to prove their case--kind of a fundamental principle that this country was founded on.

Someone here is "scum," but it's not who you think.

Maybe move to Qatar.
Seems @wontbackdown83 deleted his original tweet so that he could turn off replies. Very brave man.
He didn't even last 20 minutes. Sad. Image
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