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The non-religion of human rights

I delivered the speech below at UN City in Copenhagen today, a keynote for a convening hosted by the UN Development Program’s Nordic…

8 min readDec 12, 2023

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The non-religion of human rights

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David Kaye

What’s going to happen to Twitter? A few thoughts.

Here’s what I think is going to happen with Twitter. I doubt any of this is news to people but I wanted to put it down in one place. Not…

3 min readNov 19, 2022

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A word (or two) on platform power and responsibility

When it comes to the power of social media companies, we seem to live in a Manichaean world, according to which the most dominant…

4 min readJan 14, 2021

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A word (or two) on platform power and responsibility

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David Kaye

Against balancing

The New York Times’ Editorial Board led on Sunday with this headline: “When Liberty and Health Collide”. It’s a good topic and I am glad…

5 min readMay 4, 2020

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Against balancing

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Trump’s War on Truth is Bad for Your Health

On the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Jim Rutenberg wrote his media column in The New York Times noting, “disinformation was for…

5 min readMar 6, 2020

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Trump’s War on Truth is Bad for Your Health

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David Kaye

Ethiopia, the scourge of ‘hate speech’ & American social media

While Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, you might think that the people of Ethiopia would be…

4 min readDec 9, 2019

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Ethiopia, the scourge of ‘hate speech’ & American social media

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Four Questions About Regulating Online Hate Speech

Determining the standards for online hate speech and disinformation

7 min readAug 12, 2019

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Four Questions About Regulating Online Hate Speech

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A New Constitution for Content Moderation

Social media platforms should look to human rights law to govern speech on the internet

10 min readJun 25, 2019

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A New Constitution for Content Moderation

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David Kaye

David Kaye

Teach law at UC Irvine, former UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet.

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