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What this country needs is more government monitoring of the internet [View all]
HambergerHat RetweetedFirst Vermeule, then Bartholet, and now
@jacklgoldsmith
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Harvard is either the best at the "wrong answers only" meme format, or the very very worst at not authoritarianism.
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Fmr. Bush admin lawyer/current Harvard Law prof Jack Goldsmith goes full-Thomas Friedman, credits China's enlightened authoritarian approach to information as "largely right" and laments the US' provincial fealty to the First Amendment as "largely wrong." https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/
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Lawyer who signed off on significant portions of Bush's warrantless mass-surveillance system still thinks he was right.
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