WOW. Bluesky blocks Mississippi. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Bluesky is now blocking access to people in Mississippi due to the state's problematic age verification law. Thread (and attached blog post) have m...
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OK, I read the UK ruling about Wikipedia and the Online Safety Act, and... I definitely don't recommend it. Unless you enjoy the elevation of process over substance, in which case go for it. [www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...](📄.pdf ) [judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl...](📄.pdf )
I filed a comment in this Council of Europe consultation. It's in my best European regulator-ese, which is to say the writing is not punchy. But it gets into a bunch of topics I've been thinking about. 1/ [papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....](
Comment to Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on the Draft Recommendation on online safety and empowerment of content creators and users by Daphne Keller :: SSRN
This comment addresses <br><br> - The critical distinction between “systemic duties and responsibilities” or regulation of platforms’ “des...
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Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social)
For those interested in distributed content moderation, there is a super interesting Council of Europe consultation on recommendations for state-ma...
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Comment to Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on the&nbsp;Draft Recommendation on online safety and empowerment of content creators and users by Daphne Keller :: SSRN
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THIS. “The key isn’t begging for better billionaires or smarter regulations—it’s recognizing that decentralization isn’t a technical preference, it’s a democratic necessity.” RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Tried to pull together a bunch of threads of things I've been talking/thinking about lately, about how decentralized tech & democracy go hand in ha...
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This is such a great topic. Lots of speech is also *illegal or legal* depending on the speaker's intention, not just her words. Lawmakers and platforms turn a blind eye to this in pretending that platforms are reasonable enforcers of speech laws. [misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-...](
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The unappreciated role of intent in algorithmic moderation of abusive content on social media | HKS Misinformation Review
A significant body of research is dedicated to developing language models that can detect various types of online abuse, for example, hate speech, ...
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The unappreciated role of intent in algorithmic moderation of abusive content on social media | HKS Misinformation Review
A significant body of research is dedicated to developing language models that can detect various types of online abuse, for example, hate speech, ...
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You GUYS @Mike Masnick said this about my “compliancization” article!! [www.techdirt.com/2025/07/31/e...](
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Everyone Hates Trust &#038; Safety. Everyone Needs Trust &#038; Safety. This Is A Problem.
Here&#8217;s the contradiction at the heart of the internet: everyone complains about content moderation, but no one wants to use an unmoderated pl...
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TIL that Tom Lehrer dedicated all his songs to the public domain as vehemently as he possibly could. What a phenomenal, amazing mensch that guy was. [tomlehrersongs.com](
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For those interested in distributed content moderation, there is a super interesting Council of Europe consultation on recommendations for state-mandated user empowerment tools. Deadline to file is Aug 8, but "filing" can mean sending a short email.  1/ [www.coe.int/en/web/freed...](https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/-/public-consultation-on-the-draft-committee-of-ministers-recommendation-on-online-safety-and-empowerment-of-content-creators-and-users ) [Public consultation on the dra...](https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/-/public-consultation-on-the-draft-committee-of-ministers-recommendation-on-online-safety-and-empowerment-of-content-creators-and-users )
Proposed: EU authorities publishing official documents (draft regulations, consultations, etc.) should be REQUIRED to link to the actual doc in all the other pages of summary, puffery, and praise that inevitably get published at the same time. Think of the person-hours saved...
This was a great discussion of a big brewing topic. As public interest in middleware grows (great!) we will see terrible nonsense "middleware" laws, like the one the Missouri AG is pushing. We talk about the promise, the problems, & how Moody and @Bluesky fit in. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJfV...]( ) [Algorithmic Choice or Regulato...]( )