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| Affiliated Fellow @ Yale ISP | https://law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/wikimedia-initiative-intermediaries-and-information |
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Google just agreed to pay a $24 million settlement to Trump over his utterly frivolous lawsuit against their decision to suspend his account after Jan 6.
I'm curious if they were to try this tactic in, say, Azerbaijan, whether they might be accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/29/nx-s1-5557371/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement
The Right Honourable. Mark Carney, P.C., O.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree P.C., M.P. Minister of Public Safety The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab P.C., M.P. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship The Honourable Sean Fraser P.C., M.P. Minister of J...
Nepal's telecoms regulator has blocked all access to 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, WhatsApp, Reddit, and LinkedIn, for failing to comply with the country's new licensing requirements.
Human rights organizations in the country have been broadly critical of the ban, as well as the underlying rules, which they view as an attempt to stifle freedom of expression: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nepal-bans-facebook-x-youtube-23-other-social-media-platforms/article70011851.ece
I'm sure Carney's team will play off meetings with Kevin Roberts as purely about understanding Trump, but Canadians should be skeptical, especially as we see them advance legislation that broadly aligns with Project 2025 goals, such as Bill C-2.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kevin-roberts-project-2025-carney-1.7624327
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — was invited to speak to Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet behind closed doors Thursday but is no longer making the trip north.
Just received notice that Dalhousie is locking out faculty starting on Wednesday. Sorry to our students, who deserve better than the coming uncertainty and disruption.
See you on the picket line. #KeepDalStrong
One of the biggest challenges decentralized social media faces relates to sustainability- since business models (and by extension financing) are much easier in the context of a centralized system.
Will be interested to see how this experiment pans out…
The Trump administration's move to combat "woke" AI should be enormously concerning to Canadians. If tech companies are pushing their models towards a right-wing bias, the impacts on the broader information ecosystem will be enormous.
Must-read post by Ken White, free-speech defender and former prosecutor, about the Trump regime's malicious and hypocritical charges against a man whose "crime" was to give out masks at a protest against the masked thugs who kidnap people off the streets..
New from me: Canada needs to get serious about digital sovereignty and scrapping the Digital Services Tax won't help:
https://financialpost.com/technology/canada-get-serious-digital-sovereignty
Dan Gillmor
