regimes like viktor orban's love to talk about sovereignty, as if it is some fixed concept. but it's not. countries like hungary have made sovereign choices to be a part of europe and to commit to human rights law. in a talk at CEU today i talked about this & other things, before an awesome panel. https://dkisaway.medium.com/sovereignty-human-rights-97e80ef6b87b
David Kaye
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I teach law at the University of California, Irvine. UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression from 2014 to 2020. Chairing board of Global Network Initiative.
Poland is trying to get to the bottom of the previous government's use of Pegasus & perhaps other kinds of spyware. It's impressive & deserves support & encouragement. Excellent Tim Starks/Cyberscoopl story here.
https://cyberscoop.com/inside-polands-groundbreaking-effort-to-reckon-with-spyware-abuses/
This account has movedThe State Department is providing funding for programs for spyware accountability - spread the word: https://www.state.gov/drl-improving-remedy-accountability-and-deterrence-for-the-repressive-misuse-of-spyware-in-europe-and-eurasia/
Deadline to apply is April 10. cc @evacide @davidkaye @citizenlab
DRL Improving Remedy, Accountability, and Deterrence for the Repressive Misuse of Spyware in Europe and Eurasia - United States Department of State
United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Improving remedy, accountability, and deterrence for the repressive misuse of spyware in Europe and Eurasia This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0010236 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345 Type of Solicitation: Open Competition […]
The UN's Advisory Body on AI released an Interim Report late in December. I read it and here's my take for Tech Policy Press:. Welcome comments! https://www.techpolicy.press/evaluating-the-un-ai-advisory-body-interim-report/
David Greene (no not that one)Here's another great entry in our Speaking Freely series: former UN special rapporteur for freedom of expression David Kaye (@davidkaye) speaks with @jillian.bsky.social about an international human rights focused view of freedom of expression: https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-david-kaye
You can find the whole Speaking Freely series (so far) here: https://www.eff.org/speaking-freely
Speaking Freely: David Kaye
David Kaye is a clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, the co-director of the university’s Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, and the independent board chair of the Global Network Initiative. He also served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression from 2014-2020. It is in that capacity that I had the good fortune of meeting and working with him; he is someone that I consider both a role model and a friend and I enjoy any chance we have to discuss the global landscape for expression.
greetings! does anyone have a link to the final, as adopted text of the UK Online Safety Bill? 🙏
Open Rights GroupFreedom of expression includes the right to receive information to form opinions.
Keeping children safe online is a worthy goal, but we need to ensure that we do not restrict children’s right to information by banning them from large swathes of the internet.
✊ Take action to defend freedom of expression: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-defend-democratic-free-expression
#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics #freedomofexpression
Help defend democratic free expression
What’s legal to say should be legal to type. A government regulator shouldn’t control your speech, online or off. Yet the new Online Safety Bill could lead to just that, or worse. Our particular concern relates to a requirement to “prevent” users seeing or engaging with illegal content. In this context, the algorithmic screening would be carried out prior to the content being uploaded. Put simply, as you begin to upload your content, the system would sweep in and check it out, and potentially remove it before it has been communicated. This is a modern, 21st century form of prior restraint.
George LakoffFreedom of speech is the cornerstone of all freedom. But not all speech is the same, and not all speech qualifies as “free speech.”
As the indictments pile up against Trump and his co-conspirators for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, we have seen a concerted effort by Trump to claim a ridiculous defense based on “freedom of speech.”
Free speech, according to his cockamamie theory, means he can say whatever he wants to say, regardless of the consequences. He falsely equates his leadership of the criminal conspiracy to destroy American democracy with the act of having a mere opinion or belief.
This defense is unlikely to hold up in a court of law — and it doesn’t hold up in the field of cognitive linguistics, either. Cognitive linguists have long understood that there are different kinds of speech, and that some kinds of speech constitute “speech acts.”
More at FrameLab:
https://framelab.substack.com/p/trumps-criminal-speech-acts-vs-free
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