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Dear journalists, venture capitalists, TikTok teens and other ThinkFluencers: before hot-taking on how to regulate online speech, please consider reading some of the foundational work in this area.

Start with @Klonick's groundbreaking

Follow with @daphnehk on the overall regulatory structure of online speech:

https://t.co/gSO5mGbeHG

Read @jkosseff's book before ever typing 2-3-0 on your keyboard:

https://t.co/pgWg4Y5SWc

Read @evelyndouek on the risks of coordinated moderation:

https://t.co/g6AsXh77Qs

Pre-order @jilliancyork to understand the global human-rights context:

https://t.co/fbF9YyO4PL

...and please base your opinions on empirical work:

https://t.co/a4ywB527nf
https://t.co/itcQ0qQuIx
https://t.co/attzjnqVSx
https://t.co/nl3RTsJYYV
https://t.co/wNDhnRxEAr

https://t.co/02FVTTzda0

If you find yourself typing one of these phrases:

"This was a simple decision that should have been taken years ago"

"A private platform should be able to do whatever they want"

"This violates the First Amendment"

"Blockchain..."

You might want to start at the top again.

When you are done with the real experts, you can fall asleep to this talk I gave on balancing all of the difficulty equities here:

https://t.co/bQ3QWuPtgZ

A much more thoughtful list: https://t.co/7B7A0zZEYn

Here\u2019s that syllabus btw https://t.co/hVinM5Mc6R
— Daphne Keller (@daphnehk) January 9, 2021

Some more suggestions from folks... for the experiences of abuse victims, @sarahjeong's Internet of Garbage:

https://t.co/Ou0XNpmi2o

On disparate impact of algorithms and moderation by @safiyanoble

https://t.co/jJtW7p7nDQ

@TarletonG's Custodians of the Internet on how decisions are made and the impact on moderators:

https://t.co/k59816NAX7

as well as @CaseyNewton's reporting:

https://t.co/FvInjYHfxt

Before she was famous for her COVID work, @zeynep wrote one of the best books on government/citizen/platform power. Unfortunately, all too relevant in the age of elected autocrats.

https://t.co/igPWChY2Pb

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Facebook -- having taken out full-page ads in the NYT, Washington Post, and WSJ -- is generally seen as the primary victim of the new app privacy controls coming in iOS14. But Google is perhaps even more vulnerable to ATT. Why has Google remained silent? (1/X)

2/ First, background: here's a high-level overview of how ATT / IDFA deprecation impacts advertisers and ad networks, and why this whole ordeal has put advertisers and ad networks into a state of panic:

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