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New Research Paper on Federal AI-CSAM Prosecutions
Together with Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that someho…
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California Is Being Asked to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Doesn't Have To.
Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
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Comment to the California State Bar on AI-related proposed ethics rule changes
I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
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O where o where is that podcasting legal guide she's been promising?
Yes, I'm behind a bit. The trips in December, the holidays, the unexpected workload, yadda yadda, blah blah... alas, I am back on track and we're puttin…
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2005 in music/sales down, RIAA celebrates victory
Online music sales, copyright, media aren't my main focus as a CIS Fellow, but I do burn a fair bit of time exploring the issues. I recently designed some m…
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Mistakes, and why it's ok that we make them
People make mistakes: errors of judgement (say, choosing a vote counting technology that is unreliable or open to fraud); and errors of execution ("pushing…
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Torture, Andrew Sullivan and Spielberg
I have been away from blogging the last few weeks primarily because my new (six months) computer's hard drive died. This followed the LCD display dying in…
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American conservatism and soft utopianism
Jeffery Hart had a great piece in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday characterizing the core tenets of American conservatism. It does a very good job presentin…
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law.com commentary
Dec 27, 2005- Commentary on law.com titled "The Virtue of an Activist Judge in a Time of Terror."…
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The Virtue of an Activist Judge in a Time of Terror
I wrote a commentary piece for law.com about how activist judges can be a virtue in a time when the Administration is being activist in stretching the boundarie…
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NYT Researcher in Beijing Charged with Disclosure of State Secrets
The dangers of speech crimes. The NYT reports that Zhao Yan, 43, who worked in the newspaper's Beijing bureau, and has spent 15 months in prison without a…
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FISA Court to Investigate Wiretaps
(I'll preface this post by saying the reason I find the circumvention of the FISA Court so intriguing is that in this space, I'm usually complaining abo…
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Judge Luttig Slams Administration in Padilla Case
Wow. I had to post again. Talk about mainstream public figures stepping up to the plate. It's not just Clinton-appointed Judges who are outraged by the Ad…
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Bush Spy Order and Bravo to Judge Robertson for Fulfilling his Oath
I haven't been blogging because I'm trying to get a paper (ironically on blogging and the First Amendment) finished by the time school resumes. But I&#…
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A challenge to the "demagogic table thumpers" and "blustery blowhards"
Nicholas Kristof offers an intruiging inside perspective (and astute cross-cultural commentary) in his NYT column today: "Perhaps I'm particularly sen…