Literally no one has more authority among human rights advocates than Aryeh Neier, who came to the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany, led the ACLU, founded Human Rights Watch, and then served as President of the Open Society Foundations. nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Thanks to Paul M. Barrett for this insightful analysis of what we're hoping to do with a suit against Meta around Louis Barclay's Unfollow Everything: lawfaremedia.org/article/a-zuck…

'Surviving the AI Summer' by Amy Bruckman... because we're going to need to think about aspects of tech aside from AI: asbruckman.medium.com/surviving-the-…

Many years ago a friend told me her secret to Facebook happiness was unfollowing literally everyone in her feed. She patiently went through and unfollowed every single one of thousands of friends (though not unfriending as to avoid drama). The only things left were groups she had…

The novelist ⁦colson whitehead⁩ cancels UMass commencement address, citing “shameful” police arrests of peaceful demonstrators westernmassnews.com/2024/05/09/uma…

.Ethan Zuckerman on why he filed a lawsuit w/ Knight First Amendment Institute against #Meta in The New York Times: “If tools like Unfollow Everything were allowed to flourish, we could have better control over what we see on social media, [and] might create a more civic-minded internet.” nytimes.com/2024/05/05/opi…

Officially ending my nearly decade long blogging hiatus.

Low Frequency is where I'll be digging deep into the history of music community online, plus other stuff I've researched.

Like a teenage bride with a baby inside, let's get high on information.

low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/introducing-…

Middleware would 'provide users with more options, but... could also reduce the burden on large platforms like #Facebook that cannot possibly 'do all the things society is asking them to do'': arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… Ethan Zuckerman #ethics #law #internet #contentmoderation #tech

A brief update on my sidequest, Zuckerman vs. Meta - no court news, but lots of fun commentary, including great pieces in WaPo and Ars Technica - ethanzuckerman.com/2024/05/09/a-b…

I really appreciate the work Will Oremus did to put this suit in context, talking to a range of folks who have different perspectives on whether this could work and on whether middleware could have downsides.

A creative new lawsuit tries to turn Section 230 against the tech giants it so often protects. I wrote about Ethan Zuckerman's case for courts to protect 'middleware' that gives users more power to control their social media feeds: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

'Peaceful students camped out on the South Lawn do not necessitate an armada of police officers. An administration with the slightest bit of foresight and critical thinking would have realized this.' dailycollegian.com/2024/05/an-idi…

'But there’s more to section 230 than those 26 words. Much of the section concerns the idea that users have the right to control what they encounter online.' –Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman on his new suit, for Prospect prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

just spent the a.m. supporting the UMass Amherst students and faculty who were protesting last night and were surrounded and arrested, in many cases with tons of violence and force

calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes to drop the charges against the UMass community & negotiate

On May Day 2024, Ethan Zuckerman sued Meta in US federal court.

His case, drafted by Knight First Amendment Institute, aims to 'put control back in the hands of social media users'.

How? By releasing an updated version of Louis Barclay's banned software 'Unfollow Everything'.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

I love this paper. Xi Chen (Xi Chen) has done amazing work with great advisors to pioneer a new way in tracking news events across language divides.

I was at this protest. It is 100% the police who are the violent ones.