Ridiculous and dangerous. Sums so many things up really:
@kateruane.bsky.socialKate Ruane
@kateruane.bsky.social
Free expression advocate. Whiskey drinker. Friend of dogs. Views my own
@kateruane.bsky.social@kateruane.bsky.socialThe public interest in transparency and accountability is not what the government is seeking to serve with this atrocity. In other words, the government's aim does not have legitimacy and therefore does not comport with any human rights analysis a platform should conduct about hosting it.
@kateruane.bsky.socialAdi is right worry. But the justification, as she notes, is clearly wrong. The difference between the Penatgon livestreaming killing a man and videos of police shootings or Napalm Girl is that the former is a promotion of state violence while the latter are an indictment of it.
@masnick.comReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialWho went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
@kateruane.bsky.socialThis is horrific. Livestream it where? This should violate every major platform’s policies.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialIf you know talented law students who would be interested in spending a summer working on the most important and interesting First Amendment cases, please send them our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...
@elienyc.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialSo... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
@kateruane.bsky.socialcool job!
@kkomaitis.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialPart 4 is out: This part looks beyond individual controversies to the changing environment itself and asks whether the assumptions that once made platforms successful still fit the digital world they helped create.
techdirt.comThe Metric Is Not The Mission: The Digital ClimateThe Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...
@daphnek.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialWow. Alabama's new settlement with TikTok has *so* much in common with the Meta settlement. It also tries to extend the rules to other companies, and it's the same list: Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and NEW competitors who come along and get big in the future.
@parsnip.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialthere are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
@cdt.orgReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialCDT’s Tess Vartanian in Washington Post on the NO FAKES ACT: “For example, a satirical video that uses an AI-generated version of a politician’s image to criticize a law could be taken down after a complaint, even though the video is clearly a parody.” www.washingtonpost.c...
@edburmila.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.social[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
@zephoria.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialI got to honor civil servants & census geeks during the 1st week of book tour. At @politicsprose.bsky.social, I asked all who worked on the 2020 census to stand up. The majority of the room did. The look of gratitude on Al Fontenot's face was priceless. I was teary eyed. Democracy takes a village.
@kateruane.bsky.socialMan, I read political theory and Greek plays/poetry and Irish playwrights and Shakespeare and Stoppard and Presidential biographies and queer Latino poetry and learned comms strategy, statistics and astronomy and nearly failed calculus and on and on… it was magical. Everyone should get to do it
@newsjennifer.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialI think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
@lindaholmes.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialThe funniest outcome today would be that the Phillies lose and the Diamondbacks also lose, and the Phillies fall headfirst into the playoffs like an intoxicated teenager passing out in the bushes, and they start a playoff series with the support of a fully irate fan base.
@cdt.orgReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialAt #FOSO26, hear from Jennifer Helsby, Ali Lange, and Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco on why online anonymity matters, when it should be protected, and the growing threats to anonymous expression and participation online. https://foso26.cdt.org/
@cdt.orgReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialFOSO 2026 DAY 2: Join CDT and Stand Together Trust for Day 2 of conversations on the future of free speech online, featuring experts from across policy, tech, and civil society. Sept. 24 | 12–2:30 p.m. ET 💻 Virtual Last-minute registrations + login info: https://foso26.cdt.org/
@riana.bsky.socialReposted by @kateruane.bsky.socialNEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....