Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte
@ramiroau.bsky.social
@celeup.bsky.social / UBA / IIP-UNSAM. Con law & theory, social movements, Internet governance --- JSD/LLM @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
. EC @icon-s-argentina.bsky.social
https://ramiroau.github.io/
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https://ramiroau.github.io/
The ONLY?!
This week, the ECHR turns 75. A milestone – but these are tough times for human rights.
We spoke with Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY (commissionerhr.coe.int) about lasting achievements, present threats, and why not to lose hope.
verfassungsblog.de/we-must-neve...
We spoke with Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY (commissionerhr.coe.int) about lasting achievements, present threats, and why not to lose hope.
verfassungsblog.de/we-must-neve...
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The ONLY?!
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📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Why the voluntary approach to business and human rights sucks (and a few things that can be done about it).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNN8T...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNN8T...
Bad cover versions of law: on the inherent limits of voluntary human rights obligations, as applied to internet companies doing content moderation
This article argues that human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) in the technological sector are inherently handicapped by the voluntary approach to business and human rights in which they are conc...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Why the voluntary approach to business and human rights sucks (and a few things that can be done about it).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNN8T...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNN8T...
Reuniones académicas
October 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reuniones académicas
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or maybe there's not much difference between the coercion and significant encouragement analyses? knightcolumbia.org/blog/in-jawb...
In Jawboning Cases, There’s No Getting Away from Contextual Analysis
knightcolumbia.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
or maybe there's not much difference between the coercion and significant encouragement analyses? knightcolumbia.org/blog/in-jawb...
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When people first hear about "jawboning" -- meaning government pressure to suppress speech through threats and other extra-legal measures, like what the FCC is doing now -- they always want to talk about "coercion" by the govt.
I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/
I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
When people first hear about "jawboning" -- meaning government pressure to suppress speech through threats and other extra-legal measures, like what the FCC is doing now -- they always want to talk about "coercion" by the govt.
I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/
I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/
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I wrote about this for @knightcolumbia.org pre-Murthy here knightcolumbia.org/blog/six-thi...
And for CELE in English and Spanish here observatoriolegislativocele.com/this-is-hard/ 8/
And for CELE in English and Spanish here observatoriolegislativocele.com/this-is-hard/ 8/
knightcolumbia.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I wrote about this for @knightcolumbia.org pre-Murthy here knightcolumbia.org/blog/six-thi...
And for CELE in English and Spanish here observatoriolegislativocele.com/this-is-hard/ 8/
And for CELE in English and Spanish here observatoriolegislativocele.com/this-is-hard/ 8/
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-cease and desist
-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means
Why is law stuff like this always two words?
These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.
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-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means
Why is law stuff like this always two words?
These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.
🧵⬇️
September 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
-cease and desist
-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means
Why is law stuff like this always two words?
These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.
🧵⬇️
-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means
Why is law stuff like this always two words?
These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.
🧵⬇️
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They were private businesses adopting censorship in order to avoid government action; similar to here. The Comics Code came after Senate hearings and a moral panic over comic books corrupting youth, so while not technically government imposed, the parallels are there.
but those weren’t imposed by the govt. those were industry best practices for the commercial benefit of the whole industry. like the motion picture rating system. or youtube not showing graphic pictures of war. they could but it would be bad business.
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
They were private businesses adopting censorship in order to avoid government action; similar to here. The Comics Code came after Senate hearings and a moral panic over comic books corrupting youth, so while not technically government imposed, the parallels are there.
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"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed."
They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never
They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never
As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected.
Now….
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Now….
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Pulled 'Indefinitely' By ABC Over Charlie Kirk Comments
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has been pulled 'indefinitely' by ABC.
www.rollingstone.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed."
They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never
They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never
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"In the era of Trump, censorship... very likely will target the economic infrastructure of speech rather than speech itself. But this does not make it any less a threat to the democratic values that the First Amendment is supposed to protect."
A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!
A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"In the era of Trump, censorship... very likely will target the economic infrastructure of speech rather than speech itself. But this does not make it any less a threat to the democratic values that the First Amendment is supposed to protect."
A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!
A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!
Rulling by bullying www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Rulling by bullying www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
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This is an important perspective. What it misses is the law: You can’t have a stable economic system if the president routinely violates laws enacted by Congress. And Congress has made a choice to insulate the Fed from the President. That choice needs to be honored until it is changed.
Opinion | Don’t Just Defend the Fed. Reinvent It.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is an important perspective. What it misses is the law: You can’t have a stable economic system if the president routinely violates laws enacted by Congress. And Congress has made a choice to insulate the Fed from the President. That choice needs to be honored until it is changed.
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Then think about tech companies’ incentives — and especially AI companies’ incentives — to be pliant putty in the administration’s hands, if that’s what keeps the money flowing.
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Then think about tech companies’ incentives — and especially AI companies’ incentives — to be pliant putty in the administration’s hands, if that’s what keeps the money flowing.
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As someone who has run an actual non-ridiculous independent media operation for over two decades which has lost multiple sponsors due to our public "we're against fascism" stance... to hear that Weiss might get $200 million for basically justifying and whitewashing fascism... is... frustrating.
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
As someone who has run an actual non-ridiculous independent media operation for over two decades which has lost multiple sponsors due to our public "we're against fascism" stance... to hear that Weiss might get $200 million for basically justifying and whitewashing fascism... is... frustrating.
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Programa actualizado del V Encuentro Anual (¡y se van sumando lecturas!). ¡Entrar, leer, venir a Mar del Plata!
iconsar.github.io/blog/v_encue...
iconsar.github.io/blog/v_encue...
July 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Programa actualizado del V Encuentro Anual (¡y se van sumando lecturas!). ¡Entrar, leer, venir a Mar del Plata!
iconsar.github.io/blog/v_encue...
iconsar.github.io/blog/v_encue...
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Fanon Today.
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
July 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Fanon Today.
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
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Forget the illegality. You don't even need one semester of law school to realize that.
Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.
Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.
July 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Forget the illegality. You don't even need one semester of law school to realize that.
Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.
Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.
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Hot take: The real problem with the Florida Nazi student paper is originalism itself. If your constitutional methodology’s only available criticism of “ethnic cleansing is required, actually” is that they got 18th and 19th century history wrong, then your constitutional methodology is trash.
June 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hot take: The real problem with the Florida Nazi student paper is originalism itself. If your constitutional methodology’s only available criticism of “ethnic cleansing is required, actually” is that they got 18th and 19th century history wrong, then your constitutional methodology is trash.
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Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Hoy en razones para deprimirse
June 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Hoy en razones para deprimirse
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On Monday, A Trump-appointed federal district judge denied AAUP's motion for a preliminary injunction in the Columbia funding cutoff case on (dubious) standing grounds. I'll have full analysis next week. For now, here's a reminder why the cutoff is plainly unlawful.
Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Columbia Funding Cutoff Update and Reprise
I continue to be on break, so today I'm running another "classic" column from my "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series--my first foray int...
www.dorfonlaw.org
June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On Monday, A Trump-appointed federal district judge denied AAUP's motion for a preliminary injunction in the Columbia funding cutoff case on (dubious) standing grounds. I'll have full analysis next week. For now, here's a reminder why the cutoff is plainly unlawful.
Ilegítimo e ilegal
June 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ilegítimo e ilegal
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💬 ¿Qué lugar ocupan actualmente los derechos humanos en la gobernanza de plataformas digitales?
En un nuevo paper publicado en #EWAF25, Agustina Del Campo, @nicolaszara.bsky.social y @ramiroau.bsky.social proponen caminos para recuperar la centralidad de los DDHH.
En un nuevo paper publicado en #EWAF25, Agustina Del Campo, @nicolaszara.bsky.social y @ramiroau.bsky.social proponen caminos para recuperar la centralidad de los DDHH.
June 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
💬 ¿Qué lugar ocupan actualmente los derechos humanos en la gobernanza de plataformas digitales?
En un nuevo paper publicado en #EWAF25, Agustina Del Campo, @nicolaszara.bsky.social y @ramiroau.bsky.social proponen caminos para recuperar la centralidad de los DDHH.
En un nuevo paper publicado en #EWAF25, Agustina Del Campo, @nicolaszara.bsky.social y @ramiroau.bsky.social proponen caminos para recuperar la centralidad de los DDHH.