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Michael Karanicolas
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Palmer Chair in Law and Public Policy at Dalhousie Law. Formerly @ UCLA and Yale. All things tech and democracy. Dachshund enthusiast.
Not the main point but further down the thread he also says a Democratic President couldn’t abolish ICE without congressional approval, or use a line item veto on appropriated spending. That may be true in theory, but try telling that to USAID.
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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As an academic, I feel strongly that it’s unethical for me to sell subscription-only content in a newsletter. I am already being paid to do intellectual work and share it with the world. Asking people to pay me for my analysis would be a kind of embezzlement.
February 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Presumably there's also a tension between that business model and Musk's desire for it to be a vector for broader political and cultural influence though. I don't know that it's tenable for X to simultaneously be the world's premier news platform and its premier porn platform.
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I think there's definitely scope for an article that interrogates this idea, both in terms of how exceptional the 1A actually is, and compares its performance critically to other international models.

I was thinking of putting something together over the summer if you're interested collaborating.
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I do agree that there's a categorical distinction when compared against countries, like the UK or Australia, which have *no* constitutionally entrenched freedom of expression.

But generally, I find that proponents of the 1A tend to overstate how internationally exceptional it is.
January 26, 2026 at 2:08 PM