Kate Klonick
Law professor & journalist researching internet law, online speech governance, AI. Dallying in consumer protection.
For sporadic writings on these things see: https://klonick.substack.com/
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People I Always Talk to About Law, Speech, & Tech
This is my shortlist of brilliant, experienced, and always open to just chat through an idea types of folks in tech, law, speech, First Amendment, AI, EU tech law, and governance. (Also they’re all great people)
@maryannefranks.bsky.social
Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
@buffyann1998.bsky.social
if the apocalypse comes, beep me. Government lawyer by day, slayer by night. Profile picture is Buffy Summers in the late 90s TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Background is the Sunnydale cemetery.
@stefquirk.bsky.social
French toast sticks and syrup provider. Professional Office Paper Pusher in whatever law office that will put up with me. Likes jokes.
@johnpelwood.bsky.social
Law nerd. Music fan. Serial monomaniac. Views are my own and not my firm's. Maybe not even mine.
@gruberg.bsky.social
She/her. Economic Justice VP at National Partnership for Women & Families. Previously VP LGBTQI+ Research and Comms at CAP. Hyperfixated on cats, raccoons, and administrative law 🏳️🌈
@cityofrochester.bsky.social
Est. 1834 Visit our website to learn more about our great city: cityofrochester.gov
@zevesanderson.com
Executive Director @csmapnyu.org Angeleno living in NY. Figuring out snow and social media
@saulyoussef.bsky.social
Physics, Computing and Math, Research Professor, Boston University Pro Humanity; Pro Reason; Pro Truth "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson
@belletorek.bsky.social
Law, tech policy, survivor safety & privacy @nnedv.bsky.social. Advisory Committee, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Former AI & Tech @hrc.org. Vintage style, not vintage values.
@bedoyaftc.bsky.social
Official account of FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya. ***Commissioner Bedoya will never ask you for personal or bank information, or for a money transfer.***
@brookings.edu
Independent research and analysis on the most important policy issues in the world. Sign up for the daily Brookings Brief: http://brook.gs/3JuZxRE
@bennettcapers.bsky.social
Law Professor and Director of Center on Race, Law, and Justice at Fordham Law School, writing about criminal justice, race, sex, and anything else that interests me.
@davidaweinberg.bsky.social
Policy Strategist for @protectdemocracy.org Punster, parent, patriot. Former staffer for @January6thCmte, et al. All views are my own, and retweets mean nothing.
@modemjunkie.bsky.social
Sharing political parodies from YouTube and other things that intrigue me. Retweets and Quotetweets (including quoted text) do not necessarily reflect my own views.
@lemonslayer.bsky.social
When you're handed lemons, make lemonade! Veteran & Progressive. Like nearly everyone, a Subject Matter Generalist (SMG) on most things.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@risenc.bsky.social
Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
@niklaseder.bsky.social
Co-Founder of User Rights. Founding director of the ‚Article 21 - Academic Advisory Board‘. Previously at Oxford University, the Oversight Board and the ISP at Yale. https://www.user-rights.org/en https://www.user-rights.org/en/advisory-board
@jnvictor.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Cardozo Law School, writing on IP and law & tech, perennial procrastibaker, 🏳️🌈
@elizabethjoh.bsky.social
Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law podcast http://learnconlaw.com https://elizabethjoh.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
@etiennetoussaint.bsky.social
Law Professor @ University of South Carolina | On Substack: “The Tenure Track” & “Freedom Papers” | husband + dad of 3 boys www.thetenuretrack.com
@hariosofsky.bsky.social
Dean and Myra and James Bradwell Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (she/her).
@jessicasilbey.bsky.social
Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Law https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/jessica-silbey/
@moonalice.com
From 1982 to 2015, I invested in tech. Since 2016, I have been working for reform of the tech industry. Author of NYT bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Musician in Moonalice (https://www.moonalice.com/splash) Phillies fan.
@paulschwartz.bsky.social
Law professor at UC Berkeley and a Co-Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. International Expert in #Privacy & Security Law 🌐 paulschwartz.net
@natematias.bsky.social
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @natematias@social.coop natematias.com citizensandtech.org
@feerst.bsky.social
Tech lawyer. Trust & Safety gadfly. Three memes in a trench coat. Knowhow is fine, but what about Knowwhy...
@oversightboard.bsky.social
Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook and Instagram through binding decisions on content and policy recommendations. www.oversightboard.com
@claraigk.bsky.social
Researcher. Reader. Mom. 🇧🇷🇩🇪 Legal scholar into many things democracy, media and digital technologies regulation. Leading the research group "Technology, Power and Domination" at the Weizenbaum Institute | WZB . claraigk.com @digipolicy.bsky.social
@masonmarks.bsky.social
Health law, FDA regulation, and drug policy prof at FSU College of Law. Senior fellow at Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. Visiting fellow at Yale ISP. https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/fellows/senior_fellow/mason-marks
@jonathanmanes.bsky.social
Senior Counsel at the Macarthur Justice Center working on surveillance and civil rights in the criminal legal system. Media Law & Gov’t Transparency at Northwestern Law.
@mateuszgr.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Tulane Law School, Fellow at Information Society Project (Yale Law School) | digital economy, contracts and consumer market | off-duty: music and art history https://law.tulane.edu/mateusz-grochowski
@albertsonb2.bsky.social
Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
@sethrockman.bsky.social
Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
@tristansnell.bsky.social
Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify. Substack - tristansnell.com
@wonkish.bsky.social
Soft left(ie), former Labour staffer, and a tech/climate nerd who follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/they + 🏳️🌈.
@leppert.me
Working on AI and access to knowledge at Harvard. Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative; Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center.
@davidrvetter.bsky.social
Climate journo; Forbes Senior Contributor; Consultant. Host of the Climate Futures webcast from the University of Oxford. Tips/leads: dvetter.01 on Signal. Please subscribe to The Climate Laundry: https://the-climate-laundry.ghost.io/
@profgalloway.com
Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
@farsidecalendar.bsky.social
Keep the Far Side alive! Posting one (daily) of over 2,000 Far Side strips on yellowed newspaper. To acquire the collection, professionally produced in color and without the newspaper: https://www.thefarside.com/shop/books (I am not Gary Larson)
@johnwdean.bsky.social
Author, Lecturer, CNN contributor, (soon again) Justia’s VERDICT columnist, contributor THE CONTRARIAN, fmr Nixon White House Counsel, fmr Goldwater Chair at Az State Un., Senior Fellow, CCLP, Annenberg USC.
@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social
Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer. www.melbrooks.com