(3) App developers and their users have enormous power to influence user interface development—users by signaling their preference for certain designs, and app developers by acting to protect the long-term reputational interests of their companies. (5/5)

(2) New, technology-specific lawmaking that targets particular technologies is naturally appealing, but duplicative as applied to online deception, since that is already unlawful, and likely to impede innovation by creating regulatory uncertainty or lock in outdated methods. (4/5)

(1) Given their eminent flexibility, common-law fraud and consumer-protection statutes barring "deceptive" commercial practices are exactly the right tool to combat online deception, including tricky user interface designs that convey false impressions. (3/5)

A few highlights in this thread from my own presentation are below for those interested in my thoughts without a reading assignment to go with it! (2/5)

Link to my paper, Law Proofing the Future, here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For those not yet in the know, CSLSA (Central States Law School Association) is leaner than AALS and meaner than no one, just a bunch of friendly, deep thinking central staters talking over the latest legal questions. (2/3)

Bottom line: Proceed with caution. Tech-specific enactments are likely to do more harm than good, and it's not as if we don't have a robust, general-purpose baseline in place (torts, contract, consumer-protection statutes, antitrust, FTC) to pick up the slack.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...

His basic take: Cryptocurrency is good for laundering money, speculating on widespread crypto adoption (unlikely), and pump-and-dump scams to trick people out of real, hard-earned money. (2/2)

www.promarket.org/2025/07/28/i...

And my most recent thoughts on Section 230 (generally that internet immunity doctrine has drifted from the text and is an imperfect fit for the current internet) are here: law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u... (4/4)

X's complaint is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (3/4)

In my own use of Twitter I've found both features to be invaluable -- quickly alerting me to bogus stories (though I'm only human so would miss many false negatives and some false positives).

What have others encountered with Grok and Community Notes? Useful? False sense of security? (2/4)

Dan Lyons at AEI has a brief essay out that's a quick and worthy read (4/4): aei.org/technology-a...

But some costs are harder to quantify and easy to miss altogether: the innovations that might have been; the uses to which resources might have been put if not for liability risk; and the human capital that might have been deployed differently if not for compliance costs (sorry lawyers!). (3/4)