Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Coms, internet & media industries, regulation & history. Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. https://www.gmicp.org
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An interesting thought experiment to imagine if Trump had become president while Chrétien was prime minister.
The rule against viewpoint discrimination is one of the most imptl in First A law. But as I show in a new paper, forthcoming in the U Penn Law Review, the test of viewpoint discrimination has changed a LOT in the past few decades, in good ways and bad. 🧵
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How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day?
“The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.”
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Christopher Dornan
<p><span>The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo
Ideas don't die and often play out differently than their original authors intended. As @andycraig.bsky.social writes, this is the key insight of historian Gordon Wood, who was hit by a car in a parking lot this past Sunday and died at the age of 92.
Permanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Good! BC Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social has shown the world what US under Trump seeks to destroy: class, justice, and self respect.
A thoughtful thread on why social media bans are bad for kids and wrong headed generally.
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
Shawna Kidman & @adewaard.bsky.social (both UCSD) lay out the implications of &case against Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery in this terrific slide deck. It draws on their own extensive research & some data from the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported GMICP.
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Chrétien: When you look at the polls, Canadians have never been more united. Thank you to Donald Trump for that. I should propose him for the Order of Canada, but I cannot succeed. Do you know why?
Rosie: He's not Canadian?
Chrétien: Because we don't give it to a person who has a criminal record.
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Jane Winters
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GMICP research has informed public advocacy around the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger. A slide deck featuring GMICP data and analysis has been shared by the Future Film Coalition thr...
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British Columbia Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social has invited Somali referee Omar Artan to referee in Vancouver, after he was denied entry to the US
Andy Craig at the Unpopulist @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net on the great Gordon Wood.
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Good overview for anyone following expected proposed ban on social media for Canadians under 16.
“Rejecting a ban does not mean rejecting regulation. Rather, it places the emphasis on the need to regulate the platforms, not the user.”
The ban frames the wrong problem, creating a harmful solution.
Do it!
Bill Callahan
Gordon Wood understood the genius of our founding better than the Founders themselves. Rest in Peace, sir.
A group of U.S. states including California and New York are preparing a lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros , sources familiar with the matter told Reuters...
Why is a kids’ social media ban bad policy? Does the ban actually work? Doesn’t polling show overwhelming public support for a ban? Why is mandated age verification a privacy risk? If the ban is “temporary,” why does it matter? If not a ban, then what?
The government is expected to table the Digital Safety Act on Wednesday with reports that it will include a ban on social media for those under 16, framed as a “temporary” measure that platforms can…
Always good to read what @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is thinking about on topics like these. Doing so now!
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I wrote about AI doomsday rhetoric from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, what it's really intended to accomplish, and how our lazy press loves to parrot it
AI sci-fi doomsday scenarios exist to misrepresent what modern software is capable of, and spook lawmakers into embracing terrible laws, written by rich and terrible men, that will free them from over...
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Karl Bode
"US AI policy today is both blunt in its aspirations and self-contradictory in its methods."
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Today, @frankpasquale.bsky.social contrasts Magnifica Humanitas, a vision of AI in service of peace and human flourishing, with an American administration governing AI by memes, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
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Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas offers a vision of AI guided by peace, dignity, and moral renewal. It stands in stark contrast to an American administration governing by meme, chaos…
