Craig Parshall

Constitutional attorney, Big Tech commentator, Special Counsel ACLJ, fiction author. Opinions my own.

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

My ideas on the tension between Big Tech antitrust, free enterprise & free speech constitutionalism. Update: AI just amplifies this, given the Big 5’s oversized AI footprint. https://t.co/U91vBeqlUX

[Jay Sekulow @JaySekulow]

A public school forced a Christian girl to attend an “Inclusion Assembly” – violating her religious beliefs.

This is the THIRD time we’ve represented this brave young girl against the same school district. Read about our latest fight on her behalf: https://t.co/J5QRoIJHl9

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

If powerful gov’t agencies could spin false narratives on Covid & punish dissenters, how greater is that risk now with AI in the hands of a small club of tech giants?

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

The Fauci Files: Five Explosive Findings Declassified By Tulsi Gabbard: 'After years of lies, censorship, and cover ups' https://t.co/YMO4XW4vqi

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Yah, no. The burden of proof scientifically, evidentiary and biblically is on Alien Life aficionados, filmmakers & Vatican. Weighed, weighed, found wanting.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Steven Spielberg’s new film, “Disclosure Day,” suggests that aliens would be a threat to religious faith. But, @LuisParrales_ writes, Catholic theologians have been contemplating extraterrestrial life for centuries—and haven’t found it threatening: https://t.co/c17MatXzsY

[Jay Sekulow @JaySekulow]

MAJOR VICTORY: A federal appeals court allowed sanctions against an anti-Israel U.N. official to go into effect based on the arguments in our amicus brief.

When justice requires it, we will always defend Israel.

Read more: https://t.co/HmQX6NzSGw

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Sartre’s existentialist view of man’s meaninglessness was destined never to understand democracy via a constitutional republic.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[Jordan Sekulow @JordanSekulow]

Iran isn’t interested in peace. It is interested in preserving its regime.

That’s why America must continue standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel.

Read more: https://t.co/1kND9fuH0d

[ACLJ @ACLJ]

More than 700 people have been imprisoned in Pakistan under blasphemy charges in recent years.

Many were allegedly lured into online entrapment schemes before being arrested.

The ACLJ is fighting for Christians like Intizar Masih, a father who remains behind bars because of his faith.

Read more: https://t.co/mJg6E2Q9A3

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Waiting for Supreme Court ruling on Idaho ban on biological men in women’s sports. It’s coming up.

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

SCOTUS argument in Little v. Hecox: Q- should Court dump case as moot because plaintiff trans athlete wants it dismissed? A - No. As I argued in our @approject brief, “The supposed mootness here amounts to little more than a change of mind” [the essence of transgenderism].

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

In short, the task for this tech age: internet constitutionalism, where GOV’ T is contained within its enumerated realm, Big Tech does not become social & political governance, and We the People retain access to information & freedom of speech.

[Peter Laffin @petermlaffin]

READ: Don’t fall for Bernie Sanders’s authoritarian AI power grab

"In the age of populism, it’s probably quaint to ask under what constitutional authority Congress can unilaterally seize half of an entire industry."

@davidharsanyi's latest:

https://t.co/eiUP8a4qQa

[The Federalist @FDRLST]

"Nobody would create a system" like California's election process "if they wanted people to have faith in results," Sean Davis said.

"They created a system like this, because they wanted to be able to engineer results."

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Uh oh, here we go …

[New York Post @nypost]

Over 90% of AI chatbot answers about midterm elections are flawed, stunning analysis shows https://t.co/8Yx7KmMuUp

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Gee, AI robots are fun aren’t they?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A robot kicked a little boy in the stomach

We're officially one software update away from Terminator

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

So, the Vatican is open to unknown extraterrestrial life, but not dark supernatural life?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti has been an archdiocesan exorcist in Washington, D.C., for nearly two decades.

He was recently removed for his comments about UFOs being demons. https://t.co/bijY2BpYPl

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Who will govern the AI universe? The UN, multiple nations, the EU, are all clamoring for control. But only America has the history and a Constitution that can protect free speech. We must lead.

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: As the world enters a new era of technology, AI must be permitted to develop without premature regulation, writes Argentina's President Javier Milei https://t.co/GzDL4f4ey4

[Jordan Sekulow @JordanSekulow]

We are honored to announce that ACLJ Senior Counsel CeCe Heil has been appointed as a Commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

CeCe has spent years defending persecuted Christians worldwide. We are proud to see her expertise recognized in this important role.

Read more: https://t.co/lWTLMEEVWu

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Marcus is the same cognitive scientist who wants global oversight of AI, forgetting apparently the Bible’s ancient warmings about centralized global power.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

when sam quotes the bible, you know things aren’t going well for OpenAI

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

AI is developing rapidly. This administration is right to recognize the cybersecurity risks posed by advanced models.

Now, it's Congress's turn. We must address catastrophic risk without ceding ground to China or restricting Americans’ free expression.

https://t.co/IQYnmuUOpv

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Totally agree we should be concerned that “growing AI-industrial complex will further concentrate power around AI – in both government and industry;” but totally think the information freedom of the American public is being left out of the equation.

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

Two things can simultaneously be true about this new AI security executive order:

1) This represents a reasonable governance arrangement for frontier model security and its oversight, at least when compared with the far more intrusive ideas floated earlier, like the pre-vetting of models via a formal government licensing regime (aka, “FDA for AI”).

2) This represent as significant win for the military-industrial complex and the continuing fiction of “voluntarism” surrounding its inner workings. Thanks to open-ended EOs like this, the new growing AI-industrial complex will further concentrate power around AI – in both government and industry – and lead to more avenues for public officials to exert control over not just model security, but potentially many other aspects of algorithmic development and use, including content-related matters. After all, “security” is in the eye of the beholder (and future administrations and officials).

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

This is not radical - this is a constitutional right of parents that the Supreme Court had affirmed for decades, and again most recently in Mahmoud v. Taylor.

[Jay Sekulow @JaySekulow]

The House just passed legislation to stop schools from hiding critical information from parents about what their kids are learning.

The ACLJ is fighting to stop the sexualization & indoctrination of children in schools.

Sign now: https://t.co/WQgy3iGNek

[Craig Parshall @CraigParshall]

Besting the radical AI-over-humans “successionism” movement with “humanism” requires we first define “human.” I suggest that’s a question not of technology, or sociology, but of theology.

[Vox @voxdotcom]

We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win. https://t.co/3xqUersYW9