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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

@enbrown
24 posts
2024-08-08
“'Age assurance' checks are increasingly popular among lawmakers trying to wall kids off from the open internet. But they rely on a style of surveillance that ranges “from ‘somewhat privacy violating’ to ‘authoritarian nightmare.’” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-08-08 View on X
Washington Post

A look at AI age scanners, which websites use to verify a person's age by analyzing their facial patterns via webcam to help safeguard kids online

Drew Harwell / Washington Post : Threads: @drewharwell . X: @webdevlaw , @eff , @notjessewalker , and @enbrown Threads: Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : New: Age-verification systems...

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2023-03-24
lol, now Rep. Guthrie is criticizing TikTok for not removing U.S. content as quickly as Chinese social media apps ban things... Lawmakers really can't decide if the issue is that we hate Chinese ways or should be more like them
2023-03-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.

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goodness, this is insurfferable so far... TikTok's CEO keeps essentially saying he's not an agent of the Chinese Communist Party and the lawmakers are like... BUT AREN'T YOU ACTUALLY? like he's going to trip up Scooby Doo villain style if they keep saying it
2023-03-24 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok

“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issue...

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lol, now Rep. Guthrie is criticizing TikTok for not removing U.S. content as quickly as Chinese social media apps ban things... Lawmakers really can't decide if the issue is that we hate Chinese ways or should be more like them
2023-03-24 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok

“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issue...

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goodness, this is insurfferable so far... TikTok's CEO keeps essentially saying he's not an agent of the Chinese Communist Party and the lawmakers are like... BUT AREN'T YOU ACTUALLY? like he's going to trip up Scooby Doo villain style if they keep saying it
2023-03-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.

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2023-02-22
Eric Goldman on #GonzalezvGoogle: “I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position. ... I have a little optimism that Google will win the votes-much more so than yesterday.” https://blog.ericgoldman.org/ ...
2023-02-22 View on X
Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after their initial dismantling

I'm going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests.  My takeaways:  — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position.

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But also... “The justices really struggled with parsing the statutory wording. This is a good example of how 230 could lose even if Google wins. The court's exact reasoning will make a huge difference, and there are many ways it could go sideways”
2023-02-22 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.

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Eric Goldman on #GonzalezvGoogle: “I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position. ... I have a little optimism that Google will win the votes-much more so than yesterday.” https://blog.ericgoldman.org/ ...
2023-02-22 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.

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But also... “The justices really struggled with parsing the statutory wording. This is a good example of how 230 could lose even if Google wins. The court's exact reasoning will make a huge difference, and there are many ways it could go sideways”
2023-02-22 View on X
Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after their initial dismantling

I'm going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests.  My takeaways:  — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position.

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2022-08-27
All sorts of gov actors need to meddle less in tech company decisions. I don't doubt the FBI was heavy-handed wrt how social platforms handled content around the election. But this isn't the weird smoking gun lots of people are making it out to be (also, it was Trump's FBI!)
2022-08-27 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...

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This is a really irresponsible framing of Zuckerberg's comments. He says the FBI said to be vigilant about misinformation around election time, not that agents specifically told Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...

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That said, this showcases how gov't doesn't need to make direct (unconstitutional) censorship requests of tech companies. It just threatens them—w/hearings, investigations, antitrust suits, new regulations, etc—so much that they suppress all sorts of stuff preemptively
2022-08-27 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...

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2022-08-26
This is a really irresponsible framing of Zuckerberg's comments. He says the FBI said to be vigilant about misinformation around election time, not that agents specifically told Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

“It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan.  —  Matthew Gault

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2022-07-29
... it really doesn't make sense anyway to have the federal gov concerned with competition for competition's sake. We're not talking about finite goods/resources where 1 or a few could do some dastardly deeds & deprive people of or artificially inflate prices for a necessity...
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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If existing fitness programs suck or get too pricey, new competitors will swoop in. We don't need government to freeze existing ownership in time for this to be the case
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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Plus, you know that if Meta made its own VR fitness app and took any steps to compete with existing products like Supernatural, the FTC & Congress would also accuse them of illegal monopolist behavior for doing that 🙄
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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So basically Facebook can't win. Anything it does to survive and stay relevant, the government says is illegal
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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It seems any steps Meta takes to develop new products & business lines, authorities are gonna call anti-competitive. But Facebook and its business model are dying. And authorities also want to make it get rid of Insta & WhatsApp...
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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If Meta made a really good VR fitness app, it could put the smaller biz behind Supernatural of business. Who wins then? If it made a shitty app, it would just mean metaverse users who also want a good VR fitness program can't do so in an integrated way
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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The world isn't down one VR fitness app if Meta buys Supernatural, it just has one (of a number of VR/AR fitness offerings) with a different owner... https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries

Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

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