China's spy balloon; EU Warns Musk on hate speech -- Tech Law & Policy This Week

China was caught floating a spy balloon over Montana. Like no one was going to see it. What else is there to do in Montana except look up at the sky? According to the Washington Post, a defense official said, "It loitered overhead for an extended period of time." Come on guys, when are we going to get serious? What other shenanigans do we have here … Oh! The European Union is warning Elon Musk that they're going to hit him with a can of you-know-what if he doesn't comply with their Digital Services Act. The Act prohibits hate speech . We don't have a hate speech ban in the U.S. But EU's law influences Twitter content in the U.S., since managing U.S. policy and EU policy would be more expensive. And the Republican-controlled House is going to grill former Twitter staff at a hearing next week. They want to know more about why the company suppressed stories about Hunter Biden. What else? Oh – Harvard's Kennedy School is shutting down its Technology & Social Change project after just 5 years. Prominent scholar Joan Donovan led the institute focused on misinformation . Harvard says the landscape has changed drastically and that the mission is no longer relevant. That's the public version of the story. Donovan didn't comment to the Washington Post. And the other piece to this is that Elon has now blocked access to Twitter's API, so researchets can no longer access it. Tech Policy Press & Justin Hendrix released a podcast episode last week giving the Indigenous perspective on Generative AI and the need to publish more work by Indigenous peoples. New York Attorney General Letitia James wants answers from Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall about reports the venues used facial recognition technology to ban the lawyers opposing them from entering the venues. Thousands of lawyers were affected. James is investigating whether this practice violated New York's Civil Rights laws. Finally, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is promising new chat features to compete with ChatGPT . Meanwhile, the company just laid off 12,000 people.

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China's spy balloon; EU Warns Musk on hate speech -- Tech Law & Policy This Week is an episode from WashingTECH Tech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller by Joe Miller.

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This episode was published on Feb 4, 2023.

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