Daphne Keller

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

They’re only making plans for Nigel.

Ah right. It’s the Prime Minister of Antifa who has the power, I always forget.

Ah, the President of ANTIFA. I think he’s the guy from Portland who slept on my friends’ couch for a week in the 90s, and then everyone in the house got scabies.

critical 🧵 on rubio’s speech at MSC

I have been yelling about this privacy vs transparency tradeoff for YEARS. But I'm at best a half-ass privacy expert. I was basically trying to hold space for when the real experts finally got invited or showed up in platform transparency discussions.

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/04...

So so so happy to see privacy experts engaging in depth about tradeoffs between privacy and transparency -- in every context, but particularly under DSA Art. 40.

Preso on this was stellar.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Nielsen data is for the US (I’m almost certain), and AFAIK is as reliable as data’s gonna get on the topic.

The TikTok data is from a doc produced in US litigation, but maybe it’s global? If so I’m guessing that outside the US it marks a much greater actual increase in screen time. 4/

I must object to that metaphor. Gibson = Clapton is making me a little ill.

God bless The Smoking Gun

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

My perspective may be skewed by the fact that the kid I talk to most about Internet use is *deeply* Bernadette-Banner-pilled.

As a young nerd at that age, I would have absolutely swooned at the idea of that kind of access to information. 3/

Is TikTok worse than TV? The worst case scenarios are. The best case scenarios are way way better. I don’t know how to truly compare the two. But I’m from the nineties, and I’m here to tell you that the racism, sexism, body-shaming, and general suppression of difference on TV was WAY out of hand. 2/

TV Viewing Among Kids at an Eight-Year High | NielsenTV Viewing Among Kids at an Eight-Year High | Nielsen Patricia McDonough, SVP Insights, Analysis and Policy, The Nielsen Company American children aged 2-11 are...

A presenter just mentioned internal TikTok data showing their 90th percentile child users watch 4.5 hours/day. (I think i got that right.)

Some quick searching tells me that’s how much time the average 2-11 yr old used to spend watching TV. 1/

www.nielsen.com/insights/200...

I guess I can’t swear. But all kinds of lockdowns (without any acquisition) are happening daily for AI goldrush reasons. And (off the top of my head) I’d think that adds to incentive to acquire the alternative source of the data trove you hold?

VERY chuffed. Thank you!

The justices and gender pronouns Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. At issue was whether Idaho and West Virginia laws that prohibit transgender women […]

Interesting rundown of how S Ct justices have used gender pronouns in cases where that was an issue. I'm actually a little surprised and pleased by how generally respectful they've been in their use of he/she. It looks like "they" hasn't come up.

www.scotusblog.com/2026/02/the-...

5/ Bottom line: The First Amendment would mean nothing at all if the FTC could use "consumer protection" as a talisman to regulate whatever it wants.

The agency should leave speech to the discretion of speakers, where it belongs, and stick to issues within its jurisdiction.

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

empty and dragging?

this is some bullshit

That makes it hard to argue (as X did) that sharing the data creates big problems for users’ GDPR rights, etc.

Great summary of the EU Commission’s interpretation of researcher scraping rights in its DSA enforcement against X.

A major and unique backdrop here is that X (1) used to offer all this data to researchers in its API and (2) continues to offer it to anyone willing to pay.

Utterly foreseeable and deeply chilling. FTC hiring an attorney whose full time job will be to, as Chairman Ferguson put it in his leaked memo to Trump when he was trying to get the job, fight the “trans agenda.”

oh yeah!

that’s a good way of putting it

I only know the litigators, so the rest is one big blind spot for me.

No, their remit has really expanded and they are focusing on a lot of current govt abuses. I thought the schools stuff was kind of silly, but their current docket/priorities/work are IMO very very smart.

Oh, would that be the NRA v. Vullo for which current Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers was NRA counsel in the lower courts??

I truly hope that a reporter asks her about this case in her current DSA-bashing our, where she keeps accusing EU officials of censoring speech by pressuring platforms.

You're always welcome, @lilianedwards.bsky.social