Daphne Keller

Platform Regulation Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Former Google AGC. This is roughly my zillionth rodeo.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

We imagine that platforms can bring the whole sprawling chaos of human behavior into compliance with the law. Make our lives policeable, and policed, to a degree no govt in history could have imagined. Not only do we seem to think it's possible– we think it's a good idea.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@aho that’s… weird. idk!

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

It’s baaaa-aaaack

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@OrinKerr But it has a belt holster for field use, so there’s that.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@OrinKerr Mine looks really different for some reason.

[Shark @rexsharkasaurus]

In a small act of colonialism, the EU’s GDPR comes before I can pay my respects

[Corbin K. Barthold @corbinkbarthold]

What a mess.

The district court wrote a piece of fan fiction in favor of the plaintiffs. It was a performance piece -- issued on the Fourth of July, when courts are closed. It was riddled with errors -- even fabricated quotes.

Schmitt lost at the Supreme Court, which gave us, in this footnote, the single sentence that should mark this case forever. But Schmitt got to go back to his friendly judge for discovery, and the federal government became his friend too, and so he procured a sweetheart settlement. Even that doesn't do nearly as much as he claims.

The crowing here is so shameful. "We won," cries a cynical, dishonest loser.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

There are no words to describe this horror in my notifications

[Anupam Chander @AnupamChander]

Quoted in the Financial Times alongside the great @daphnehk @Klonick and @hutko on 'The transatlantic battle over free speech' https://t.co/yjbH0tYLi9 via @ft 1/

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: We don’t have to talk about this as if it’s a hypothetical issue. Just a couple of months ago, Discord tried to roll out “age verification.” They contracted with a third party to conduct facial scanning — not just of kids, but also of adults. They decided to launch a teen default setting where they would lock users into a teen-appropriate experience. Which, mind you, if you are an adult who does not opt in, you then get cordoned off into the teen experience. Explain to me how that has anything to do with children’s safety.

The only way to get out of that censored version is by scanning your face. What’s more shocking is that Discord made the decision to move forward with this after they had been hacked and 70,000 users had their data stolen.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@torrentfreak Please please start posting to that other platform! I just realized how much I’ve been missing you guys!!

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Uh... I'm pretty sure that the EU said X's ad repository was just completely missing major data, like the content of the ads. They might, just like any U.S. agency, also require specific formatting, but that is not what this fine is about.

[House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @JudiciaryGOP]

What were the X ad repository’s alleged problems?

It produced data about ads previously shown on X in a spreadsheet, rather than on the X website itself.

And even though the repository allowed certain custom searches for past ads, it didn’t allow enough of them.

The European Commission expects us to believe that its €35,000,000 fine over this minor technicality is just an impartial regulatory action, not a clear pretext to punish X for allowing free debate on Europe’s disastrous mass migration policies.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@JudiciaryGOP Meanwhile, X *also* hired a third party company, Bright Data, to scrape third party websites.

While simultaneously *suing* Bright Data for scraping X.

Now they're mad that researchers want to scrape X to offer transparency about the company's own practices.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@JudiciaryGOP X notoriously changed its TOS so *it* could scrape all of our posts to train AI, with no new consent.

That's exactly what the researchers want to do, except the law requires them to limit data use and protect users' rights in a way X never will.

https://t.co/2lFCe0MEZr

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Donald Duck won't enter the public domain until 2026. U.S. officials on the lookout for IP infringement would probably use this example too.

[House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @JudiciaryGOP]

The Commission even gave an example of what it found so objectionable: a blue checkmark on a Donald Duck parody account.

It called the practice “deceptive.”

That’s right—the Commission fined X €45 million because its practices might lead users to believe that 1) this fictional duck had come to life, and 2) was a real X user.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Adam Serwer on MAGA and Minnesota: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

This is wise advice.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

@aracalacana fair

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Still true.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

When you write about the Internet as if it were only Facebook, Google, and Twitter, you help to create that version of the Internet.