Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI. Senior Editor at Lawfare. https://klonick.substack.com/ www.kateklonick.com
On Lawfare Daily, @noupside.bsky.social spoke to @klonick.bsky.social and @eredmil1.bsky.social about the people who create AI-generated sexual content and whether prominent technical proposals can actually prevent AI systems from generating exploitative content. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social spoke to @stevefeldstein.bsky.social about about his recent essay on AI targeting systems on why the conventional wisdom about AI warfare has it backwards. youtu.be/K6ex-jovAts
On this week's Trials of the Trump Administration, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social & @rparloff.bsky.social discuss Supreme Court decisions on birthright citizenship, firing independent agency heads & location data privacy.
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 2On Thursday, July 2 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Kate Klonick, Eric Columbus,...youtube.comTomorrow at 4pm, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org will sit down with @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, and @rparloff.bsky.social to discuss this week's Supreme Court's decisions and more.
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 2YouTube video by Lawfarewww.youtube.com
Was Hines v Stamos Cheryl Hines suing John Stamos over the long-awaited Full House/Curb Your Enthusiasm crossover? Nope, it was an attempt to suppress academic research into the organized manipulation of online platforms. After three years we finally won. But at great cost.
Kate StarbirdTwo years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
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Knight First Amendment InstituteInternship alert: the Knight Institute is accepting applications for its fall 2026 Research, Policy, & Communications Internship. Open to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and @barnard-college.bsky.social students. Apply by July 17 at 5 p.m. ET: knightcolumbia.org/page/fall-20...
On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com were joined by @doctorow.pluralistic.net to discuss his new book “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," what the "reverse centaur" is and how it maps onto a broader culture. youtu.be/T1KIwaYRs1g
The Supreme Court ruled this morning in Chatrie v. United States that location data has constitutional protection. After oral argument, @klonick.bsky.social sat down with a panel of experts. Listen to the podcast today to understand the Fourth Amendment stakes of geofence warrants.
Lawfare Daily: Chatting on Chatrie with Adam Unikowsky, Michael Dreeben, and Richard SalgadoYouTube video by Lawfareyoutu.be
This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler.
Steve PeersEU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
The historian Gordon Wood, who died yesterday after being run over by a motorist in East Providence, was my dissertation advisor. He was 92. Here are some memories of him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...
Gordon Wood Dies at 92I just heard the news that Gordon Wood, a towering figure in...talkingpointsmemo.com
Absolutely insane story from @suryamattu.com. Bloomberg found a little-known tax loophole exploited by the rich is costing the Treasury $48 billion a year…roughly enough to fund NASA twice over.
The Top 1% Reap Most From Tax Loophole Costing $48 BillionThe ETF industry is exploiting the tax break at an unprecedented scale.www.bloomberg.com
NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...
From Alito's Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton (Published 2005)www.nytimes.com