Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
When Facebook started 15 years ago, it didn’t set out to adjudicate the speech rights of 2.2 billion people. Twitter never asked to decide which of the 500 mill…
Other Writing
Trump may be about to call Europe’s bluff on Iran. Europe isn’t bluffing.
Last Friday, the editorial board of Bloomberg Opinion condemned Europe’s new INSTEX arrangement, a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle set up to allow European co…
FBI's human rights investigators critical to prosecuting 'atrocity crimes'
For over seven decades, the United States has stood as the cornerstone of a rules-based global system that arose from the ashes of World War II, organizing and…
How far should organizations be able to go to defend against cyberattacks?
The deluge of cyberattacks sweeping across the world has governments and companies thinking about new ways to protect their digital systems, and the corporate a…
Submission to PJCIS Regarding Assistance and Access Act
Submission to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding its review of the Assistance and Access Act that had…
Democracy and inequality as a global foreign policy agenda
[The below text is a short memo I presented for a workshop on a left-liberal financial foreign policy for the US last week.] The US left is starting to come to…
EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s War Crimes Unit on the Chopping Block
[UPDATED] A special unit within the Federal Bureau of Investigation that handles war crimes may be shut down imminently, according to officials familiar with th…
People used to joke about ‘Democrats in disarray.’ They’re not joking now.
The comedian Will Rogers famously joked: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Until relatively recently, neither Republicans n…
Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech
This essay closely examines the effect on free-expression rights when platforms such as Facebook or YouTube silence their users’ speech. The first part describe…
The problem with Brexit is that there’s no obvious next step
No one was surprised that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal was rejected Tuesday by the House of Commons. What was surprising was that t…
Change your phone settings so Apple, Google can’t track your movements
Technology companies have been pummeled by revelations about how poorly they protecttheir customers’ personal information, including an in-depth New York Times…
What Homeland Security Can Learn from Casinos
At first glance, the problems of homeland security and cybersecurity may seem an odd fit for the Center for Gaming Research and the Special Collections and Arch…