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Jonathan Zittrain
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Jonathan Zittrain
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A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. @Harvard_Law, @HSEAS, + @Kennedy_School; @EFF board mbr; director of @BKCHarvard and @HLSLib.
- Some extraordinary quotes in this piece. It’s hard not to conclude from it that many Republican officials believe that only Republicans can be trusted to administer elections, and only Republicans can legitimately win them. (Any Rs who do certify a D victory are also purged.)Replying to @reidepsteinIn Arkansas, the GOP legislature enacting laws giving a GOP-controlled state board power to “institute corrective action” and “take over and conduct elections” in counties. One of the law's authors believes Trump won the election. nytimes.com/2021/06/19/us/…
- A year ago today it was clear what was happening, and it remains clear now.
- It’s worth dwelling on this for a moment. Texas legislators want to make it illegal for citizens to voluntarily travel together without registering with the government — if and only if the aim of their travel is to lawfully cast a ballot.
- This is a real letter from state senator Chris Kapenga, a die-hard Trump supporter, after Trump accused him of covering up election fraud. (!) He calls out Trump’s lies … amidst Pravda-era praise. Stockholm Syndrome could be renamed for a town in Wisconsin’s 33rd district.
- The President ends his thread about a foiled plot to abduct the Michigan governor by repeating the would-be kidnappers’ demands.
- “Keyword warrants” demand that a search engine turn over a list of identifiers for every Internet user who performed a particular search within a time window. cnet.com/news/google-is…
- "TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps." Paging @FTC h/t @macargnelutti🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser 👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps. krausefx.com/blog/announcin…
- Replying to @zittrainThis really drives home @AdamSerwer’s observation that “fraud” can encompass the idea that one’s opponents are illegitimate participants in politics and governing, even if they’re fellow Americans. amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/61…
- The House Judiciary Committee is where articles of impeachment are drawn up. If that very committee majority is asking the VP to invoke the 25th Amendment, why wouldn't it proceed to impeachment?NEW: I am sending a letter with @RepTedLieu and our colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee, calling on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office after today’s events.
- With the help of the ace @nytimes digital team, we compiled a list of ~2.2 million externally-facing hyperlinks that had been used in nytimes.com articles since its launch in 1996. The goal was to discern how many of them had fallen victim to linkrot or content drift.
- Timnit Gebru’s work on AI bias is necessary and pathbreaking. The prospect that she’d simply be instructed by her employer to withdraw her academic work-in-progress — with no discussion — implicates all the church/state issues of corporations hosting academic research units.
- This from @crampell is a jaw-dropping revelation of the blandest of evil, sneaky rules. An embarrassment to and mockery of equal justice under law, and our country. If you’re ok with this, try to be honest about why.
I've said for a long time: Republicans decry bureaucracy, then weaponize it against vulnerable people. But the Trump admin has taken it to a truly horrific level. Read @crampell on the Kafkaesque techniques they're using against immigrants: washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-t… - Threatening to shut down the military over Internet intermediary defamation immunity was not on my otherwise-expansive Presidential tweet bingo card.
