I often reject tech analysis that centers free speech because of how it was used by tech libertarians to usher in the current dystopia. I think Meredith Whittaker does a good job bringing together political economy with the importance of free expression here: lpeproject.org/blog/social-me…

I can get behind this statement from the German Computer Scientists Forum for Peace and Social Responsibility calling for 'the practice of targeted killing with supporting AI systems to be classified as a war crime'. Original statement [de] blog.fiff.de/warnung-senkun…

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Oh god. I've been dreading this.

Ask yourself why reporters would need to be arrested for reporting on what's happening at UCLA? What dont they want the public to know? Asking as a UCLA alum class of 1996

This is Annelise Orleck who is the head of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth and 65 years old.

Europe is maybe two months from passing laws that end private communication as we know it, and folks are looking the other way (understandably.) You’re not going to get a do-over once these laws are passed.

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

'Peaceful' ≠ 'lawful.' 'Forcing the cancellation of classes, trespassing, shutting down campuses' are all PEACEFUL.

Biden's willful conflation of peaceful w/ lawful is underwriting stunning brutality, & forging political weapons that will be wielded by others at our peril.

Anyone who cares about free speech & expression should be feeling cold blood in their veins as USG rushes to silence, censor, & brutalize those critical of Israel's extremist gov.

Bills like this are political weapons. Once forged, they will be wielded for much, much more.

GREAT TO SEE: Amnesty Tech & partners lifting the lid on surveillance sales to #Indonesia

Transaction secrecy is a key accelerant for proliferation...

...hiding powers used by governments against citizens & while blunting the chance they will be held to account.

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

'What problem does this actually solve? The issue is not necessarily the tech, it’s how the structures that create it are shaped, the corporations and the governments that have the ability to determine who it serves and who it subjects' Meredith Whittaker on AI msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/…

WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

Was just telling my kids how at Princeton in the late 90s some students occupied the President’s office for weeks, and everyone treated it as totally mundane. At Bard where I grew up it happened all the time. Heard that Guidos office at YLS was occupied too.

From Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb to students: 'We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality. You told the stories the global public deserved to hear. You helped the School to meet its…

Listen to the student broadcasters instead: radio.net/s/wkcr

🎙️Join us for a Space on May 1, 1pm ET, to discuss how student journalists are covering the Israel-Gaza war and growing student protests, as well as responding to attacks on press freedom

W/ Student Press Law Center’s Mike Hiestand; Indiana Daily Student’ Salomé Cloteaux; Caitlin Vogus twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRJj…

I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…