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Kate Klonick

@klonick
75 posts
2025-12-08
For the first ~6 years of its existence, the big question around crypto currency was “what's the use case”— @kashhill.bsky.social had a great 2013 “living on bitcoin” story that was defining.  —  But for the last year the answer has been clear: crypto's best use case is fraud & political corruption …
2025-12-08 View on X
New York Times

How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity?  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/...

Here's the piece by @kashhill.bsky.social www.kashmirhill.com/stories/ bitc...  And here's Aaron Krolik's great piece that came out today about how the illegality that crypto has always enabled has been absolutely accelerated this last year in this direction  —  2/2  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
2025-12-08 View on X
New York Times

How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity?  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/...

2025-09-27
Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company [image]
2025-09-27 View on X
Axios

Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security”

President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.

2025-08-24
Bluesky has geoblocked Mississippi in response to their age assurance law. The balkanized internet has long been here between nations, but I think this is the first time we're seeing a speech platform geo-blocking by *US State* This way lies madness. https://bsky.social/...
2025-08-24 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification

Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mis...

2025-08-23
The balkanized “future” of the internet has long been here—for decades the internet in Spain has looked very different from the internet in Canada.  —  But I think this is one of the first times we're seeing a platform geo-blocking by *US State* and this way lies madness.  —  bsky.social/about/blog/0...
2025-08-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law.

Bluesky has geoblocked Mississippi in response to their age assurance law. The balkanized internet has long been here between nations, but I think this is the first time we're seeing a speech platform geo-blocking by *US State* This way lies madness. https://bsky.social/...
2025-08-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law.

2025-01-18
SCOTUS TikTok decision just dropped.  —  TikTok Ban will go into effect on Sunday, January 19, 2025.  —  Per curiam opinion with Sotoymayor and Gorsuch writing separate concurrences  —  www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/ 24p...
2025-01-18 View on X
Bloomberg

SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk

but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Da...

SCOTUS TikTok decision just dropped.  —  TikTok Ban will go into effect on Sunday, January 19, 2025.  —  Per curiam opinion with Sotoymayor and Gorsuch writing separate concurrences  —  www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/ 24p...
2025-01-18 View on X
CNBC

TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement

TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …

2025-01-17
SCOTUS TikTok decision just dropped.  —  TikTok Ban will go into effect on Sunday, January 19, 2025.  —  Per curiam opinion with Sotoymayor and Gorsuch writing separate concurrences  —  www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/ 24p...
2025-01-17 View on X
Bloomberg

SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk

The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …

2024-08-28
Chatted with the great @ceciliakang about the implications for other tech CEOs with the Puval Durov arrest. . . if anyone wants to take my bet on Elon, hmu. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-08-28 View on X
Politico

French administrative document: alongside Pavel Durov, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for his Telegram co-founder and brother Nikolai in March 2024

PARIS — French authorities issued arrest warrants for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and his co-founder brother Nikolai in March …

Chatted with the great @ceciliakang about the implications for other tech CEOs with the Puval Durov arrest. . . if anyone wants to take my bet on Elon, hmu. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-08-28 View on X
New York Times

Experts say Pavel Durov's arrest is likely an outlier, as the legal bar is high in the US and Europe to prosecute tech executives for content on their platforms

printers— were held responsible for what came off their presses, then booksellers.  Finally authors were responsible, which Foucault says was the birth of the author.  I think we w...

2024-03-07
THIS @paulg: “We don't want to think about Apple being evil. *It would be so inconvenient.*” As someone who studies these companies, the comparative outrage over Meta/TikTok/socials v. Apple is amazing to me Apple is the North Korea of tech companies. 1/
2024-03-07 View on X
The Verge

Epic says Apple removed its iOS developer account, hampering its app store plans, and shares a letter from Apple lawyers calling Epic “verifiably untrustworthy”

THIS @paulg: “We don't want to think about Apple being evil. *It would be so inconvenient.*” As someone who studies these companies, the comparative outrage over Meta/TikTok/socials v. Apple is amazing to me Apple is the North Korea of tech companies. 1/
2024-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

The EU confirms requesting further explanations from Apple over removing Epic's developer account under the DMA, and is examining if Apple broke any other rules

- Epic Games barred by Apple from opening own iPhone app store  — EU says it is looking to see if firm has broken new tech law

2024-01-16
If you wrote this as a movie script coda for David Post, I'd say it was too crazy to make. Absolutely incredible story about how tech changes and so must our priors https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-01-16 View on X
New York Times

A look at music streaming fraud, including bot farms and pirates relabeling musicians' work to steal revenue; Beatdapp estimates fraud costs musicians $2B/year

relabeling others' music as your own to get streaming revenue from it—featuring @VolokhC's own David Post (as a subject of the fraud, not the author of the article). https://www.ny...

2023-05-19
Great news for the future of the internet: the Supreme Court gets about as hands off as it can possibly get on Section 230 in a 2.5 page per curium decision in Gonzalez v. Google. Opinion here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/ ... 1/ [image]
2023-05-19 View on X
CNN

SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh

Taamneh v. Twitter, Gonzalez's companion case, was NOT about Section 230, but was about social media companies aiding & abetting terrorist orgs under the Antiterrorism Act Taamneh had a lengthier UNANIMOUS J. Thomas authored opinion where Twitter “wins” [link to SCOTUS Syllabus Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh Et Al.]
2023-05-19 View on X
CNN

SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh

Taamneh v. Twitter, Gonzalez's companion case, was NOT about Section 230, but was about social media companies aiding & abetting terrorist orgs under the Antiterrorism Act Taamneh had a lengthier UNANIMOUS J. Thomas authored opinion where Twitter “wins” [link to SCOTUS Syllabus Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh Et Al.]
2023-05-19 View on X
Techdirt

A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet

Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.

Great news for the future of the internet: the Supreme Court gets about as hands off as it can possibly get on Section 230 in a 2.5 page per curium decision in Gonzalez v. Google. Opinion here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/ ... 1/ [image]
2023-05-19 View on X
Techdirt

A look at SCOTUS' rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230's existence could bode well for the Internet

Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.

2023-05-18
Way to waste everyone's time with dumb stunt politics, Montana. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-05-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024

Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation  —  Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …

2023-03-30
Remember that thing I was saying about the small guys being the real threat in AI? https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-30 View on X
BuzzFeed News

FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more

FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right.  Its makers say that is the point. Tweets: @markyarm , @klonick , @pt , @dvsch , and @normative . Thanks:...