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David Kaye
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californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.

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David Kaye is an American politician who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression between August 2014 and July 2020, succeeded by Irene Khan. .. more

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · Sep 3
👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h...

Here are my concluding paras:
last paragraph of testimony: "I urge this Committee to consider the real threat to Americans’ freedom of expression, the one here at home. I have noted a handful of areas where this administration is putting freedom of expression under direct attack. Where is the opposition, let alone outrage, given the attack not only on speakers – journalists, public media, professors, students, whistleblowers, civil servants – but on every American’s right of access to information about the issues important to our democracy and to our public’s health? That, I would respectfully submit, is the real threat to American speech and innovation, and I look forward to helping this Committee, in any way you see fit, work to address it."

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1h
but i've watched portlandia and their pols seem so competent
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1h
yeah, that's onerous at a relatively modest income level. wealth taxes like the ones proposed are for a class of people who haven't filled out a govt form in years and never will.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1h
this story focuses on thiel & larry page. two add'l notes.
1. deep irony in the fact that their wealth depends upon companies that extract personal data from the public.
2. gavin newsom is helping support opponents of the wealth tax. and he wants the dem nomination.
davidakaye.bsky.social David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
some will leave, some won't, but their very fake anxiety shows how un-civic-minded, how selfish they really are, as if the unimaginable wealth they have isn't already enough.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
same goes for california - distance plus many other things they value here

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
🤞

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
yep, had the same thought. total sham.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
we don't explore enough *why* they want their absurd amounts of wealth, why they think they cannot give back to a society that made their wealth possible. power, impunity, jealousy - all the sins.

Reposted by Anne Hilborn

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
some will leave, some won't, but their very fake anxiety shows how un-civic-minded, how selfish they really are, as if the unimaginable wealth they have isn't already enough.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
damn right

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
celebrate your immigrant roots, americans!
a manifest from the S.S. Lituania, a ship that arrived at Ellis Island New York on 12 January 1926, carrying my grandmother, listed at #21, then 14 y.o.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3h
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3h
still a very good film, but personally i would have leaned in *more* to the early 80s playlist in marty supreme

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
what’s with the inner quoted? i feel trolled.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
posting while up-picking the takeout

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
are any networks not carrying DHS propaganda? the fascistic imagery alone should be a disqualifier.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
back at ya charlie!

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
i'm in the chinese take-out crowd but i still appreciate any chance for people to celebrate - friends, family, human rights - in these dark times.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
merry christmas to all who celebrate, whether you spend it around a tree or with chinese take-out (or both).

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 20 more

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 2d
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
yes it's unlawful. yes it's an interference with european democracy & sovereignty. all with a major political purpose to promote a far-right agenda by protecting their channels of disinformation.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
noupside.bsky.social Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.

Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
stay safe, angelenos.
weatherwest.bsky.social Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 2d
Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain
Current radar snapshot with warnings depicted.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, David H. Kaye

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 2d
Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain
Current radar snapshot with warnings depicted.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers , and 8 more

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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 3d
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 3 more

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.

Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d
i feel like this aspect should be seen and reported as an entire scandal of its own. truly, how can it be that the military is essentially engaged in hit-and-run ops?

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d
people are murdered on the sea, and the US military just lets them be? are they collecting bodies? debris? maybe this has been reported, but i can't recall seeing any of this.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d
it's totally nuts, the level of opacity here. these statements seem to rest on nothing. how do they even do after-action assessments? do they do them at all?

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d
has the administration released any information identifying *any* of those killed in these ops?

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 4d
good pairing
two stories in the new york times, one (on top) says "Larry Ellison Personally Guarantees Paramount Bid for Warner Bros." while the one below, "60 Min Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Called its Removal Political.'