Very pleased that @dtspartnership.bsky.social has republished the @feerst.bsky.social piece that Daphne referenced in her keynote and the below thread: Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet dtspartnership.org/media/your-s... No logins, no paywalls.

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · 2w ago

My keynote at #TrustCon yesterday was a heartfelt love letter to frontline Trust and Safety workers. I even managed not to tear up, go over time, or (I hope) tell too many early Google war stories.

Yo @faineg.bsky.social are you on this? www.fcc.gov/document/fcc... HT @jmiers230.bsky.social

One of the great misconceptions of trust and safety is that it is primarily about removing and suppressing communication. Thankfully @daphnek.bsky.social is putting freedom of expression at the center of T&S.

@daphnek.bsky.social references this great piece from Alex Feerst where he collected anonymous quotes from trust and safety workers #TrustCon onezero.medium.com/your-speech-...

Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet

Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium’s head of trust and safety.

onezero.medium.com

Masterful keynote. Anyone in T&S who couldn’t swing the budget or approval to make it to TrustCon should watch this on YouTube once it gets posted.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2w ago

Once again, @charlottewillner.bsky.social is giving a wonderful opening talk for #trustcon, kicking it off around the theme of "what did you want to be when you grew up?" and connecting to that to how much the entire trust & safety field has grown up and matured.

Oh snap, @daphnek.bsky.social is keynoting TrustCon!

Once again, @charlottewillner.bsky.social is giving a wonderful opening talk for #trustcon, kicking it off around the theme of "what did you want to be when you grew up?" and connecting to that to how much the entire trust & safety field has grown up and matured.

Gonna be talking age assurance with a bunch of smart folks from across the globe in just a few min, courtesy of @sflcin.bsky.social. Join us!

What Age Assurance means for the future of digital rights, online safety and the internet at large

YouTube video by Software Freedom Law Center India

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new report! with deep appreciation to everyone who joined us in Dublin for this event (which i was very sorry to have to miss).

Digital Trust & Safety Partnership@dtspartnership.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, @thegni.bsky.social and @dtspartnership.bsky.social released the Event Summary Report from the 2026 Rights & Risks Forum, held in April in Dublin. More than 90 experts came together to discuss how tech companies can manage risks to fundamental rights in the current global context:

Weiser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skeeting way outside my area of expertise today, sharing this Boulder Reporting Lab story on the foreseeable clusterf*ck that is lodging for Sundance. 🤦‍♂️

As Boulder welcomes Sundance, lodging prices alarm attendees

High prices could push attendees outside Boulder, threatening the festival experience and the economic return the city is counting on.

boulderreportinglab.org

Hot off the presses! Today Canada released its Digital Safety Act, including a ban on social media accounts for under 16s. More commentary to come, but the age verification rules are likely to trigger significant debate. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae... @privacylawyer.ca @suziedunn.bsky.social

Digital Safety Act | Michael Karanicolas

Hot off the presses: today the Government of Canada released its Digital Safety Act, including a requirement for social media services to prevent people under 16 from having accounts. More commentary...

linkedin.com

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

this part is my favorite: "We did not find anything,” said one of the people. "It was not politically convenient that we could not find anything."

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This @washingtonpost.com piece on the State Department's inability to find *any* evidence of EU platform "censorship" and determination to insist on making a gigantic and disastrous issue of it is really something...

Inside the Trump administration’s campaign to counter content bans in Europe

The president has expanded efforts to fight what he sees as censorship overseas, using the State Department to target European governments.

washingtonpost.com

Here's @techpolicypress.bsky.social with details on the forthcoming Presidential Decree on Brazil's new child protection law. Huge news that is mostly going unnoticed in US media. www.techpolicy.press/brazil-wants...

Brazil Wants to Reshape The Internet for Kids. The Hard Part Just Began.

A Brazilian law aimed at protecting children online is set to take effect this week, but significant enforcement questions remain, Tatiana Dias reports.

techpolicy.press

Power restored in South Boulder for all of... 5 minutes. sigh. #cowx

An important and welcome intervention against the Trump administration weaponizing immigration policy against technology research and trust and safety workers.

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 5mo ago

🚨NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org just filed a lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social challenging the Trump administration's policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers for visa revocation and deportation. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

Follow closely this welcome and really important new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's policy punishing social media misinformation and hate researchers with immigration consequences.

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 5mo ago

🚨NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org just filed a lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social challenging the Trump administration's policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers for visa revocation and deportation. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

For those who are curious, here is Blattman's resource guide for using Claude claudeblattman.com

Claude Blattman · AI for Researchers & Managers

AI workflow tools for researchers & managers. Free and open source.

claudeblattman.com

David Sullivan@davidsullivan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To this point, political scientist @chrisblattman.bsky.social is going modestly viral with his embrace of Claude code on X, and it's like it never happened here. Not great!

Important thread. One of the serious downsides of Bluesky's AI allergy is that what passes for nuanced discourse on this topic is currently happening within the dumpster fire that is X.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Extra bluesky panel with @masnick.com @jmiers230.bsky.social Matt Perault and @matt.bsky.team moderated by @jrhuddles.bsky.social. All about genAI and 230…

Next up: Gary Shapiro, Billy Easley, Ashkhen Kazaryan, Ari Cohn, and David Inserra

Hello DC! Currently at @cato.org Listening to @ericgoldman.bsky.social on Section 230, noting how difficult it is to be anonymous online these days.

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT *REJECTS* PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS

Apparently Boulder's answer to how we can possibly host Sundance in less than a year is that we've got parking lots 🤨

What Boulder learned from Utah's last Sundance Film Festival

City leaders say housing and staffing top concerns ahead of the winter festival.

axios.com

Flurries on a red flag day… #cowx

@julietshen.bsky.social, check out this verb from claude code!

From the folks that brought you ubiquitous cookie banners, here comes unending pagination clicks...

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...