Daniel L.

FOIA & Free Speech Activist

[Daniel L. @LuDaniel]

"History is replete with instances of distinguished and sacrificial services by lawyers who have represented unpopular clients and causes [...] a lawyer should not decline representation because a client or a cause is unpopular or community reaction is adverse."

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

I learned today that the UK's Internet censor, Ofcom, will, tomorrow, fine U.S. website Sanctioned Su*c*de £1,000,000.

SaSu has comprehensively voluntarily geoblocked the UK. Ofcom is fining the site anyway.

I have thoughts.

https://t.co/9A649dXc1b

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

"The reason Europe is flipping out over the visa bans is that this bluff has now been called, in the most public and spectacular way possible. The moment the U.S. government signaled it would no longer play along, the harmonization model began to collapse."

"It's a new world."

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

"Their strategy relies on a bluff: that transnational censorship 'harmonization,' vis-à-vis the United States, would simply be accepted by the Americans, who, for the sake of simply getting along, would be willing to throw the First Amendment away."

https://t.co/xmJbvAhAcK

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

"Lex loci machinae holds that an American company engaged in constitutionally protected conduct must comply with the legal rules where it actually operates, not the rules of a much wider world in relation to which it has no connection."
https://t.co/6NgTEx6kBn

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

If the United States Congress wants to step in to protect the American Internet from becoming a mandatory-ID, privacy-free, censorship hellscape, and prevent our Web from becoming a digital colony of the UK, now would be a very good time to take action.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

I’ll be on @CapX with @marcsidwell next week explaining why this policy is turbo dumb, won’t work, and will make British Internet users less safe.

[Daniel L. @LuDaniel]

@LogicPractice Duh

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The U.S. seems determined to pick a fight with the UK this week.

I wonder why.

[sphere homotopy @sphere_homotopy]

👉👈

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: The United States government has sent official condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom

The US cares more than Keir Starmer.

[Daniel L. @LuDaniel]

@MsMelChen @justalexoki woah Melissa chill

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Here’s what prominent Brits said as America’s cities burned.

Very fortunately, protesters mourning Nowak have not ignited infrastructure, murdered anyone, or otherwise cut an antisocial swathe of destruction through the UK. To the extent any of them care what America thinks, we urge them to remain peaceful—and we expect they will. Just like Henry Nowak and just like Americans, ordinary Brits have been slandered as racist. Thus violent. They’re not.

[Chris Boid @chrisboid]

The Freedom of Speech Bill is the most serious UK speech legislation drafted in a generation. @RestoreBritain_ has aligned with parts of it. Should the party adopt it whole? @Harry_pitt, full analysis below. Cases, consequences, gaps.

https://t.co/xEoN5rmKq4

[Joel David Hamkins @JDHamkins]

Please enjoy the my recent podcast appearance on About Logic with Deniz and Thorsten. We got into so many different philosophical issues in the foundations of mathematics, with a few pointed disagreements. https://t.co/CTLZlsY57b

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The Bill:
https://t.co/nmivFwutz6

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

"Overwhelmingly, victims of the UK's censorship state are not hardened extremists, who operate in encrypted channels beyond the reach of any statute, but ordinary people."
https://t.co/lEiT3UOkEL

[Daniel L. @LuDaniel]

@HunterBiden @OrangeFreddyG @andersleehere Please save us

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

No, but some adult who is buying an Apple device for the first time today will have to show their papers before they can use the Internet.

Here’s hoping this law gets struck down as savagely as it deserves to be.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Magnificent, magical building. I visited it yesterday afternoon.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Reform has pledged to repeal the Online Safety Act and the Equality Act, and likely also intends to bin the Human Rights Act.

You gotta stand *for* something, tho - and replace these laws with something better.

Might I suggest a Freedom of Speech Act?
https://t.co/nmivFwutz6