Jared Schroeder
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Jared Schroeder
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Freedom of expression and emerging technologies. Author of "The Structure of Ideas: Mapping a New Theory of Free Expression in AI Era." (https://www.sup.org/books/law/structure-ideas).

Associate professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Open any undergraduate textbook and the judge would find this case. If we're concerned about defamation, then let them sue for defamation. (Narrator: It wasn't defamatory either).

This censorship is indefensible.
February 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm thankful for the Free Speech Protection Act. SLAPPs really are a bipartisan problem. I'm encouraged about the added attention the bill will create about SLAPPs.

I'm not holding my breath that congress will actually pass this or any law the benefits the flow of ideas.
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
It's a long list of not-happening laws to address emerging problems. Two thoughts:
1) Do we trust our lawmakers to write competent and constitutional laws to address emerging problems?

2) Lawmakers' failures to act has put the courts in a concerning, lawmaking-like role.
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
There are no federal laws regarding non-consensual pornography and other forms of online harassment.

The Press Act (www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...), a reporter's shield law, is once again going to fail.
Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House
The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation will clear the Senate before the current sess...
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I research and teach in a field that has been transformed by technologies that fundamentally alter the flow of ideas -the very shape of the space for democratic discourse. But most of our laws are stuck in the 1970s.

Our copyright and privacy laws haven't been substantively updated since the 1970s.
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Fair. I considered adding that context.
November 21, 2024 at 11:58 PM
It seems like most of the framing post election is meant to troll me about what’s happening in the space for discourse. Like we’re doing the wrong-answers-only thing.
November 13, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Can you use your Blue Sky wizardry to add @sethdashley.bsky.social to this starter pack (or Part II)?
November 11, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Yes, I thought about you when I saw this earlier this semester. Really disappointed in how Penn State handled this.
October 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I’ve heard that solves most problems.
October 22, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Media literacy, for example, could address the initial concerns without running up against an inflexible First Amendment interpretation.
October 22, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The traditional challenge is that any effort to compel or limit access to protect the space for discourse from distortion faces substantial First Amendment problems.

The legal framework, and its often unmoving nature, seems to set the boundaries we have to work in in trying to resolve this.
October 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM