Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
@senatorshoshana.bsky.social
@rstreet.bsky.social Institute Digital Director and Fellow on occupational licensing reform, Section 230, social media regulation, 1A. Marmots, mountaineering, sewing, sloths.
Want to be here more, just so much to do! :(
bit.ly/SenatorShoshana
Want to be here more, just so much to do! :(
bit.ly/SenatorShoshana
If you care so much why won't you pay me for the desired outcome?
April 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you care so much why won't you pay me for the desired outcome?
For $20,000 I'll agree to go. Please write a check to my office.
April 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For $20,000 I'll agree to go. Please write a check to my office.
Really good @schatz.bsky.social interview. IMO it's underrated how forthcoming he is about his own thinking, which I think is a good thing for people to know about who represents them. Also appreciate how he resists confirmation bias www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Brian Schatz to Democrats: Please, Stop With 'Center' and 'Making Space'
As the Hawaii senator charts his path up the Senate hierarchy, he reflects on his party’s major challenges.
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December 27, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Really good @schatz.bsky.social interview. IMO it's underrated how forthcoming he is about his own thinking, which I think is a good thing for people to know about who represents them. Also appreciate how he resists confirmation bias www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I love shitposting, but for R Street Institute I oversee all our digital and manage a lot of social media. Another Twitter-type platform is exhausting, but I hate to lose out on people here who I like a lot too! Twitter is more important for work at the moment but here is increasingly too
ALRIGHT I'll be here too sometimes
I am so tired
I am so tired
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
I love shitposting, but for R Street Institute I oversee all our digital and manage a lot of social media. Another Twitter-type platform is exhausting, but I hate to lose out on people here who I like a lot too! Twitter is more important for work at the moment but here is increasingly too
ALRIGHT I'll be here too sometimes
I am so tired
I am so tired
November 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
ALRIGHT I'll be here too sometimes
I am so tired
I am so tired
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Thinking a bit more about this and... really, kinda amazed that no one at OpenAI thought that maybe this might look really bad at this particular time.
Like, read the room.
Like, read the room.
Huh. I'm sure that won't turn into any conspiracy theory at all from the likes of Elon, who is already (laughably) claiming that Apple's deal with OpenAI means iPhones are no longer secure.
It's old hat for somebody to leave military/government/intelligence work to take a job in tech, but to go from running the NSA to sitting on OpenAI's board within a couple months is a new one.
openai.com/index/openai...
openai.com/index/openai...
June 13, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Thinking a bit more about this and... really, kinda amazed that no one at OpenAI thought that maybe this might look really bad at this particular time.
Like, read the room.
Like, read the room.
Repealing Section 230 without a plan to replace it is a bipartisan idea—and a terribly reckless one. www.wsj.com/articles/buy... @wyden.senate.gov ilysm and need u to know i have an ungodly amount of s230 jewelry
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May 21, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Repealing Section 230 without a plan to replace it is a bipartisan idea—and a terribly reckless one. www.wsj.com/articles/buy... @wyden.senate.gov ilysm and need u to know i have an ungodly amount of s230 jewelry
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Sorry/you’re welcome
I came here to tell @wyden.senate.gov that i came up with a genius idea. Then I found an FTC report on that idea. Turns out that report was mandated by the CAN SPAM Act 20 years ago. Who wrote that, I wondered
Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years
Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years
May 9, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Sorry/you’re welcome
I came here to tell @wyden.senate.gov that i came up with a genius idea. Then I found an FTC report on that idea. Turns out that report was mandated by the CAN SPAM Act 20 years ago. Who wrote that, I wondered
Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years
Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years
May 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
I came here to tell @wyden.senate.gov that i came up with a genius idea. Then I found an FTC report on that idea. Turns out that report was mandated by the CAN SPAM Act 20 years ago. Who wrote that, I wondered
Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years
Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years
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When someone proposes to @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
March 26, 2024 at 10:51 AM
When someone proposes to @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
I'm so sorry I haven't been on here more - I really want to but I'm so underwater with tech legislation and I reach more electeds on Twitter :( I want to be here! But we'll see
March 28, 2024 at 12:49 AM
I'm so sorry I haven't been on here more - I really want to but I'm so underwater with tech legislation and I reach more electeds on Twitter :( I want to be here! But we'll see
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get thee to @rstreet.bsky.social's series by @senatorshoshana.bsky.social "The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation" and inject it into thy veins www.rstreet.org/commentary/t...
The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation - R Street Institute
State and federal legislators across the country are introducing well-intentioned, but flawed, legislation to protect kids from what they perceive as harm from social media. This legislation would, or...
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March 26, 2024 at 10:32 PM
get thee to @rstreet.bsky.social's series by @senatorshoshana.bsky.social "The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation" and inject it into thy veins www.rstreet.org/commentary/t...
Hey all! I'm really sorry I'm not here more but I'm just so slammed with work these days that keeping up all the accounts is pain.
But I wanted to share here -- for all those mad at Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity, uh check out all the age verification laws/proposals being enacted
But I wanted to share here -- for all those mad at Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity, uh check out all the age verification laws/proposals being enacted
Those outraged at Haley’s comments would do well to look at how Congress and the states are already violating our rights with similar proposals at this very moment. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Here's what is wrong with Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity - R Street Institute
This analysis is based on breaking news and has been updated. To connect with the author, please e-mail pr@rstreet.org. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently received extensive backlash for a p...
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November 16, 2023 at 5:39 PM
Hey all! I'm really sorry I'm not here more but I'm just so slammed with work these days that keeping up all the accounts is pain.
But I wanted to share here -- for all those mad at Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity, uh check out all the age verification laws/proposals being enacted
But I wanted to share here -- for all those mad at Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity, uh check out all the age verification laws/proposals being enacted
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Those outraged at Haley’s comments would do well to look at how Congress and the states are already violating our rights with similar proposals at this very moment. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Here's what is wrong with Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity - R Street Institute
This analysis is based on breaking news and has been updated. To connect with the author, please e-mail pr@rstreet.org. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently received extensive backlash for a p...
www.rstreet.org
November 16, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Those outraged at Haley’s comments would do well to look at how Congress and the states are already violating our rights with similar proposals at this very moment. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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In ACLU v. Mukasey, the Third Circuit found that COPA was impermissibly vague for various reasons, including not defining the standard of “knowingly.” A current federal proposal similarly does not define a “knowingly” standard. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Current age-verification methods threaten our First Amendment rights beyond anonymity - R Street Ins...
Current conversations around age verification often forget that the United States has tried to mandate age verification several times in the past. Throughout these previous attempts, the Supreme Court...
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November 14, 2023 at 12:59 PM
In ACLU v. Mukasey, the Third Circuit found that COPA was impermissibly vague for various reasons, including not defining the standard of “knowingly.” A current federal proposal similarly does not define a “knowingly” standard. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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Current laws and proposals would endanger minors’ access to health information @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Social Media Was Useful For Me, As An Ill, Nerdy Teenager
Lately, concerns about allowing minors to use social media have been front and center in the public discourse, but ways in which they use it productively have been absent from the conversation. My …
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November 10, 2023 at 2:05 PM
Current laws and proposals would endanger minors’ access to health information @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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Under the pure text of this legislation there are four scenarios in which verifying whether a person has used the pilot program to confirm their age is permissible—and sometimes, that is all it would take to unmask a user. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Social media platforms and age verification services can also be connected to existing data and serv...
Much of the concern with how age verification methods remove anonymity online applies not only to hackers and to the way in which it chills speech, but also to the government itself. Any level of remo...
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November 6, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Under the pure text of this legislation there are four scenarios in which verifying whether a person has used the pilot program to confirm their age is permissible—and sometimes, that is all it would take to unmask a user. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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"Even something as simple as filling out a form that will be filed in court may constitute the practice of law, which usually precludes non-lawyers from giving assistance." rtp.fedsoc.org/paper/the-wo... @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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November 7, 2023 at 10:55 PM
"Even something as simple as filling out a form that will be filed in court may constitute the practice of law, which usually precludes non-lawyers from giving assistance." rtp.fedsoc.org/paper/the-wo... @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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"Turning America’s children into federal criminals in the name of protecting them would be a clear policy and moral failure." @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Regimes that run age verification through the government would allow prosecutors to make children fe...
As already discussed in this series, the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would create a pilot program, run by the U.S. Department of Commerce, for use by social media companies that opt in to ve...
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November 1, 2023 at 12:14 PM
"Turning America’s children into federal criminals in the name of protecting them would be a clear policy and moral failure." @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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Next veto: HB337, a licensing-related bill that passed the House unanimously. I guess what happened here was Sununu was just synthesizing the @jerusalem.bsky.social "actually public input is bad" take with the @senatorshoshana.bsky.social "actually professional licensure is bad" take...
October 26, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Next veto: HB337, a licensing-related bill that passed the House unanimously. I guess what happened here was Sununu was just synthesizing the @jerusalem.bsky.social "actually public input is bad" take with the @senatorshoshana.bsky.social "actually professional licensure is bad" take...
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Various levels of court precedent have upheld the rights of Americans to speak freely and anonymously online. But tying one’s full identity to accounts which they wish to remain anonymous will have a serious chilling effect. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
R Street Institute Concerns about the Kids Online Safety Act - R Street Institute
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is being marked up in the Senate Commerce Committee this week. Despite bipartisan opposition from over 90 human rights, LGBTQ+ and free-market groups, and a failure b...
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October 24, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Various levels of court precedent have upheld the rights of Americans to speak freely and anonymously online. But tying one’s full identity to accounts which they wish to remain anonymous will have a serious chilling effect. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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"The court in ACLU v. Gonzales added that age verification also deters 'many users who are not willing to access information non-anonymously … from accessing the desired information.'” @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Current age-verification methods threaten our First Amendment rights beyond anonymity - R Street Ins...
Current conversations around age verification often forget that the United States has tried to mandate age verification several times in the past. Throughout these previous attempts, the Supreme Court...
www.rstreet.org
October 20, 2023 at 11:47 AM
"The court in ACLU v. Gonzales added that age verification also deters 'many users who are not willing to access information non-anonymously … from accessing the desired information.'” @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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"Some may be skeptical that children would be held accountable in court for violation of laws meant to protect them. However, consider examples around the common practice of teen 'sexting.'" @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
Regimes that run age verification through the government would allow prosecutors to make children fe...
As already discussed in this series, the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would create a pilot program, run by the U.S. Department of Commerce, for use by social media companies that opt in to ve...
www.rstreet.org
October 19, 2023 at 7:51 PM
"Some may be skeptical that children would be held accountable in court for violation of laws meant to protect them. However, consider examples around the common practice of teen 'sexting.'" @senatorshoshana.bsky.social
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Him: *asks you about experiences with sexual assault*
You: what's your farm put out?
Him: Whoa whoa whoa that's personal we just met
You: what's your farm put out?
Him: Whoa whoa whoa that's personal we just met
October 19, 2023 at 12:27 PM
Him: *asks you about experiences with sexual assault*
You: what's your farm put out?
Him: Whoa whoa whoa that's personal we just met
You: what's your farm put out?
Him: Whoa whoa whoa that's personal we just met