Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:22 UTC

No one over the age of 40 should answer phone calls on their mobile phone; just too many scammers. Someone calling about an account breach or identity theft? Let them leave a message or hang up, call your bank, etc. using a known number

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

My naive ass thinks about how moderation model training, guidelines in algorithmic form, etc. should be expressive enough but I guess we shall see

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

The algorítmic discussion in Barrett and even Alito was a stronger thread than I had expected

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

Third, the govt cannot get its way just by asserting an interest in better balancing the marketplace of ideas. In case after case, the Court has barred the government from forcing a private speaker to present views it wished to spurn in order to rejigger the expressive realm." 9/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

Second, none of that changes just because a compiler includes most items and excludes just a few. It “is enough” for the compiler to exclude the handful of messages it most “disfavor(s).” 8/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

"First, the First Amendment offers protection when an entity engaged in compiling and curating others’ speech into an expressive product of its own is directed to accommodate messages it would prefer to exclude. 7/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

even when that user content is compiled into a “news feed” or something similar. In the Court’s words: 6/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

In its guidance to the lower courts, the Court majority essentially held that the right to moderate user content is strongly protected, 5/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

the five Justices in the majority—joined by one concurring Justice—made clear that governments cannot force online websites to carry content posted by users that they do not want to carry. 4/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Although the primary issue that resolved the case turned on questions about the type of legal challenge that was brought, 3/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

In a critically important decision today, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the strong conclusion that website operators have a constitutional right to moderate content posted on their sites. 2/

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @joebeone.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

"US Supreme Court Upholds Right of Websites to Moderate Content" by @internetsociety.bsky.social John Morris @jmorris.bsky.social and Dan York @danyork.bsky.social www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/07... 1/

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