If you cite "Anxious Generation" supportively, you should listen to the <If Books Could Kill> podcast about the book, on why it's not very rigorous or persuasive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBM...
Are you a recent law graduate interested in the First Amendment? Interested in working on issues where technology policy intersects with free speech, including generative AI, social media, trust & safety, and Section 230?
Come work with the FX team at CDT!
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New piece by @mluria.bsky.social and me on what today's hearing on kids' safety is missing: the perspectives of parents and teens who are deeply skeptical of whether these bills will meet their needs. Huge thanks to @viacristiano.bsky.social for his sharp edits. www.techpolicy.press/congress-chi...
Same as it ever was…
Brett Max Kaufman and I wrote this piece about the NSA's "vocabulary of misdirection" a long time ago but maybe someone at Open AI should read it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Please look at Baby Globe.
Happy birthday, @wikipedia.org, the last best thing in the internet.
In this CDT Tech Talk, @riana.bsky.social and I talk about Grok and the challenges inherent in preventing the generation of NCII by generative AI systems. The Grok case is undoubtedly extreme, but it highlights some thorny speech issues that we need to grapple with.
It's important that lawmakers are demanding answers here. Every user of social media (including our clients in the cases we've filed) deserves to know whether companies are stepping up to protect them or selling them out to a repressive government.
“‘The fact that Amazon is reconsidering their relationship with Flock should be a very large and glaring sign that schools should also perhaps reconsider that relationship,’ said Kristin Woelfel, policy counsel for equity in civic technology at the nonprofit CDT.”
“Each little dot: a person.”
Read @aliyabhatia.bsky.social on the need for multilingual evaluations of AI models.
As these systems become further integrated into existing services and content moderation practices, how they work (or don't work!) in languages other than English becomes even more critical.
So BEFORE anyone asks, it's STILL the Streisand Effect. It's not the Talarico Effect or the Colbert Effect or the Brendan Carr Effect. It's the Streisand Effect.
As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
I’m in New York this weekend to see Hilary Harnischfeger’s show, Songs for Clouds, at uffner & liu. There are still beautiful things. Check it out!
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The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses.
Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
Will India truly forge a 'third way' at the #AIImpactSummit next week in Delhi or further entrench Big Tech actors' roles in the Global South at the expense of local alternatives? Great read by @ambakak.bsky.social and Astha Kapoor: restofworld.org/2026/india-a...
100% this. And I can’t imagine a better messenger.
Dinking around in the St. Clair v. xAI docket, I found that xAI is indeed raising Section 230 as a defense to liability for Grok's bikini pics, as previewed in its opposition to a PI. ("Does 230 apply to gen AI outputs?" is a Q courts haven't answered yet.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is so cool, folks.
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
the bushes were people 😂
When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.
Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
The DOJ’s renewed push for Minnesota’s Medicaid, SNAP & voter roll data isn’t isolated — it builds on a year of federal efforts to consolidate highly sensitive state data. CDT’s Elizabeth Laird, Quinn Anex-Ries & Maddy Dwyer unpack why this moment is so alarming.
It kinda went under the radar (or, worse, was celebrated) last week when @gavinnewsom.bsky.social announced he was investigating TikTok's moderation practices based on a random complaint on X. It was bad when DeSantis & Abbott wanted to do that to Twitter. It's bad when Newsom does it with TikTok.
David.
