Julian Sanchez

@normative
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He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
“A Disney defeat would represent a dangerous reversal in First Amendment jurisprudence and cast a pall of fear over private expression. If Disney loses…America’s first liberty will be at risk, and the culture wars will escalate out of control.” https://t.co/iv8BsuhXWV
Opinion | Disney v. DeSantis: How Strong Is the Company’s Lawsuit?

The First Amendment ramifications are substantial.

The New York Times

Anyone who wants to stop under 18s from using social media is both naive
and dangerous.

Children do not suddenly become an adult and know how the world works. it’s up to US as parents, guardians, teachers, and family members, to ensure the children in our lives can safely explore what it is to grow up.

Moreover, we are the ones who need to create an environment young people feel safe to explore the world in. That means safely discussing issues of the wider world, not hiding them from it.

Young people who are not given access to anything other than what their school/church/parents think they should are more likely to be abused, taken advantage of, and radicalized.

#SocialMedia

Building Burakos Party Leader/Folk Hero and kinda want to rule zero him to Izzit so I can build an alter Jeskai deck around the same abilities that’s Barack Obama, Party Leader/Community Organizer
Duolingo wants to teach me to “use the imperfect” which having just watched the last episode of Picard sounds sort of creepy.

The amazing Mr. @mmasnick has just issued a report on the unintended consequences of internet regulation. I am already underlining.

https://copia.is/library/unintended-consequences/

The Unintended Consequences Of Internet Regulation

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing drumbeat for greater internet regulation. But even the most well-intended policy approaches may have completely unexpected negative consequences that may outweigh the benefits sought by the regulation in the first place. Those benefits can be dif

Copia Institute
Texas Could Push Tech Platforms to Censor Posts About Abortion

If passed, the proposed law would also require internet service providers to block websites that discuss access to abortion.

WIRED

Proud to join EFF, CDT, FIRE, AFP-MT, ACLU, and ACLU-MT in opposing Montana's shortsighted and overreaching TikTok ban bill:

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-and-civil-society-groups-urge-montana-house-to-vote-no-on-unconstitutional-bill-banning-tiktok-for-all-montana-residents

ACLU and Civil Society Groups Urge Montana House To Vote “NO” on Unconstitutional Bill Banning TikTok for All Montana Residents | American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union
JUST IN: DOJ has filed its reply in support of a stay pending appeal of the Kacsmaryk mifepristone order: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.137.0.pdf

Super excited today to release a research report that I've spent over a year working on, regarding the unintended consequences of internet regulations around the world.

The paper is not an attack on the idea of regulating the internet, but rather calling out how terrible nearly every existing attempt has been, and how much damage each attempt has been towards both competition and speech:
https://copia.is/library/unintended-consequences/

The Unintended Consequences Of Internet Regulation

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing drumbeat for greater internet regulation. But even the most well-intended policy approaches may have completely unexpected negative consequences that may outweigh the benefits sought by the regulation in the first place. Those benefits can be dif

Copia Institute
Given what’s happening to Twitter, I have to wonder: is the future for reported social media actually a return to 2000s era blogging, but this time via Substack? Aka slow Twitter/Mastodon?