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David Kaye is an American politician who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of… more

David H. Kaye
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by David H. Kaye

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this is the core of brown’s rejection of the so-called compact. ✊ www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
text of two paragraphs from brown letter available at link
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Reposted by David H. Kaye, Philip N. Cohen

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"The Department of Education’s proposed 'compact for higher education' is unconstitutional and should be unequivocally rejected by universities" -- new from Amanda Shanor & @serenamayeri.bsky.social at @knightcolumbia.org
A Brief Legal Analysis of the Department of Education’s Proposed Compact for Higher Education
knightcolumbia.org
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by David H. Kaye

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‘is europe going to be a beacon of democratic resilience - or a vassal.’

- @johnnyryan.bsky.social

on *the* question facing european leaders at @article19.bsky.social @openmarkets.bsky.social conference
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‘The entire information environment is influenced not just by monopolistic platforms but increasingly by the seemingly ‘do no wrong’ AI industry + corporate surveillance’ – @davidakaye.bsky.social on the hold of corporate power over free speech.

@openmarkets.bsky.social
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Happening NOW in Brussels:
How can Europe protect its democracy from foreign tech monopolies?
Join @openmarkets.bsky.social & @article19.bsky.social for two days of debate, insight, and strategy.
📺 Livestream here → www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
#DigitalSovereignty #Democracy #FreeSpeech
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
www.youtube.com
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Reposted by David H. Kaye

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TODAY & tomorrow in Brussels:
Experts, lawmakers, and advocates will gather to debate one of the defining challenges of our time — protecting free speech and democratic sovereignty in the digital/AI age.

Join the conversation at 9 AM CET: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
www.youtube.com
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by David H. Kaye

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it’s amazing how quickly the united states has gone from avatar for free speech to leading censor in the democratic world. generational damage.
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by David H. Kaye

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acquired taste!?!?!?

by David H. Kaye

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just to restate the goal here: it’s not [only] about punishing the press; it’s about blocking the public’s knowledge about american national security. censorship is the keyword.
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
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Reposted by David H. Kaye, Elizabeth Saunders, Joshua S. Weitz , and 3 more

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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
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by David H. Kaye

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transatlantic attacks on fundamental rights? good piece in the times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
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by David H. Kaye

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not how I remember it!
For nearly three hours, Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s once-fringe populist Reform U.K. Party, commanded an audience in Congress on Sept. 3 as he testified against his own country’s free-speech rules.
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by David H. Kaye

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completely agree that this is strategic, part of the overall effort to throw doubt into every bit of historical & scientific reality. the problem is not just building an alternative reality for 'the base' but also media reporting such propaganda as just another claim.
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by David H. Kaye

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😢
sign going down escalator at schiphol airport says no balloons.
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by David H. Kaye

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this is framed as hegseth's hostility to the press, which is of course accurate. but it's ultimately about hostility to public access to information, trying to envelop DoD in a bubble of silence.
Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon
www.nytimes.com
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by David H. Kaye

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nso group as an american company???

a 🧵 👇
jsrailton.bsky.social
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: Pegasus spyware coming to America?

An ex-Adam Sandler producer with ties to China is trying to acquire NSO Group.

Again.

Simonds fronted this before in 2023 & failed. But the backers haven't given up. Why?

Where is the money coming from? 1/

www.globes.co.il/news/article...
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jsrailton.bsky.social
NEW: Pegasus spyware coming to America?

An ex-Adam Sandler producer with ties to China is trying to acquire NSO Group.

Again.

Simonds fronted this before in 2023 & failed. But the backers haven't given up. Why?

Where is the money coming from? 1/

www.globes.co.il/news/article...
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Reposted by David H. Kaye

djrothkopf.bsky.social
We should all be happy for any progress toward a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and especially for the release of the surviving hostages. That said: editors and writers need to be clear a temporary ceasefire is not a "peace" deal. What we're talking about is phase one of a multiphase plan.
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by David H. Kaye

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is there a grievance mechanism here?
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Reposted by David H. Kaye, Rebecca Tushnet

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Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020?

Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist,
Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...
LIVE: Ted Cruz Leads Senate Hearing About 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
www.youtube.com
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by David H. Kaye

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i thought USC liked Trojan horses but 🤷‍♂️ - I'm a UC guy.
In forceful speeches, University of Southern California department chairs, professors, researchers and others who attended the virtual meeting called the compact “egregiously invalid,” “probably unconstitutional,” “antithetical to principles of academic freedom” and “a Trojan horse.”
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by David H. Kaye

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i can say with confidence that this is how most faculty senate meetings discussing the 'compact' would go down. it's terrible and seen for what it is - trump's effort to end university autonomy in favor of rw dominance.

faculty get it. the question is whether administrators do.
USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right
The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.
www.latimes.com
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Reposted by David H. Kaye, Nina Jankowicz, Henry Farrell

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A secret meeting with X. A senior State Dept. advisor just out of college. The VP's speech in Munich. Pressure on European regulators.

What do they share? They're all part of an agenda to turn the transatlantic alliance into a far right international:

www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...
Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press
Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.
www.techpolicy.press
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by David H. Kaye, Lisa W. Fazio, David Lazer , and 17 more

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My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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by David H. Kaye — Reposted by David H. Kaye

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though i disagree with his last point ("I look forward to seeing more discussion of the Compact in the months ahead") eugene has a good post on the 1st am implications
The Proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" and the First Amendment
[1.] There's a lot going on in the Trump Administration's proposed "Compact," and there's a lot that we might want…
reason.com
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by David H. Kaye

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What is ACLS?
Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS expands the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship.
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by David H. Kaye — Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele

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this statement by the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the key orgs in higher ed, is exactly right.

reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.

read and share and, for your opeds, steal.
I cannot post the entire alt text but it begins: On October 1, the White House proposed to nine leading American universities that they agree to a list of demands in exchange for receiving preferential access to research funding. The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” undermines the long-standing independence of American academia. It works against the best interests of colleges and universities and of every one of us who has benefited from the knowledge they produce. We call for its immediate rejection by all institutions of higher education.
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by David H. Kaye

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and not only 'what would you call it?' - what would you want *your* government to do about it? sit idly by? strike economic deals? or shun it and speak out against it?
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by David H. Kaye

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you're looking at a foreign country. the government rounds up people on the basis of skin color or other characteristic, puts them in 'detention' facilities, separates families, deports them without process, confiscates their property, denies them access to counsel. what would you call it?
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by David H. Kaye

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i reported for the UN Human Rights Council on how government demands on access providers, like the ones trump is pursuing, constitute a serious human rights violation. see docs.un.org/A/HRC/35/22
The government actions described below often fail to meet the standards of human rights law. Moreover, a lack of transparency pervades government interferences with the digital access industry. Failures of transparency include vague laws providing excessive discretion to authorities, legal restrictions on third party disclosures concerning government access to user data and specific gag orders. The lack of transparency undermines the rule of law as well as public understanding across this sector.5
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