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‘Damola Adediji

@damolaadediji.bsky.social
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Ph.D.ing @uottawa - copyright, competition/antitrust law and policy, data privacy, access to text-based & digital educational materials published in Indigenous African languages! DAAD Scholar(2015-2016), ex Max Planck(MIPLC)! I play a lot!

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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 07/02/2025
Today I offered a motion to help ensure Elon Musk no longer has unlawful access to Federal Government systems and the private, sensitive data of taxpaying Americans. All but one House Republican voted No and defeated my motion, choosing cowardice over patriotism.
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
remind those cowards of this and how each one of them can ALSO be held accountable
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Calls are pouring in from constituents outraged about Mr. Trump’s unilateral moves and how he has allowed Mr. Musk to gain access to and begin dismantling critical parts of the federal bureaucracy, and demanding that members of Congress take a stand against them." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
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As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up
In the three weeks since President Trump took office and gave Elon Musk free rein inside the federal government, millions of calls have poured in to members of Congress, jamming the system.
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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Are you ready to tune into our #DMA&Beyond Conference with Yale Tobin Center’s Digital Economic Policy? Agenda: bit.ly/3EuTPkj Livestream Feb 6, 9:00am-5:30pm ET: bit.ly/3PZRY9I Livestream Feb 7, 9:00am-5:15pm ET: bit.ly/4hyYxfc
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DMA and Beyond Conference – Knight-Georgetown Institute
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Let's say America is on a 4-year break from democracy!
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
How democratic !
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Tarrifying! www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/5...
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What a 25% tariff on Canadian goods would mean in the North Country
President Donald Trump says a blanket tariff will take effect on February 1. That would impact the price of North Country electricity, heating oil, natural gas, and more.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This past week is exactly what a war on democracy looks like www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Seems To Be Saying 'F**ck It' A Lot In His Second Term — And It's Strategic
The focus on executive action in a president's second term isn't unusual, but how Trump is going about it is.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 26/01/2025
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell, part of the ideology of Ingsoc, from Nineteen Eighty-Four)
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just a reminder: as a lawyer you don’t have to do immoral things for the client. You can quit.
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Speaking the truth to power!!!
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Kiri @kirir.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Faten Aggad: "Geography is political. Over the centuries, the borders of ‘sub-Saharan’ and ‘North’ Africa have shifted to serve expansionist agendas. Despite decolonization, these labels continue to be used today and have limited our conception of Africanness. Is it not time to change this?"
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An Africa Beyond the ‘North’ and ‘Sub-Saharan’ Divide
Geography is political. Over the centuries, the borders of ‘sub-Saharan’ and ‘North’ Africa have shifted to serve expansionist agendas. Despite decolonization, these labels continue to be used today a...
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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
One fascinating parallel I found was also the fact that for both the US Supreme Court and for the CJEU it wasn’t material whether the foreign government *actually* accessed the personal data, or the access likelihood, but that it has the *possibility* to do so, based on the foreign law. 7/
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My co-authors and I have discussed that it's not correct to characterize the EU as protectionist and the U.S. as "promoting trade over privacy:" "the United States has in fact taken an increasingly protectionist approach to international data flows in recent years..." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Privacy Peg, Trade Hole: Why We (Still) Shouldn't Put Data Privacy in Trade Law
Some principles are not well suited for negotiation through the international trade regime. Or rather, the international trade regime has never been the right f
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/01/2025
"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 08/01/2025
CDT’s George Slover’s analysis on the @thejusticedepart.bsky.social's antitrust enforcement action against RealPage mentioned in @juddlegum.bsky.social's Popular Info newsletter: popular.info/p/ai-co...
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AI costs American renters over $3.6 billion annually, according to new report
The property management software used by many corporate landlords, RealPage, is deploying AI to artificially inflate rental prices in the United States by more than $3.6 billion annually, according to a new report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 08/01/2025
Read Slover’s full analysis: cdt.org/insights/jus...
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Justice Department Goes After Algorithm-Fueled Price-Fixing in Apartment Rentals
On August 23, the Department of Justice, along with eight states, filed an antitrust enforcement action against RealPage, charging it with using an algorithm to organize and coordinate a scheme among apartment landlords to inflate rental prices in violation of the Sherman Act. The allegations set forth what appears to be a textbook example of using artificial intelligence […]
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/01/2025
🌐🎙️ “The Internet’s Librarian” Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, joins the California Sun podcast to discuss preserving knowledge in the digital age & his vision for universal access to all knowledge. 🎧 www.californiasun.co/podcast/brew... #Preservation @brewster.kahle.org
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Brewster Kahle, the internet's librarian
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, housed in a former San Francisco church with Greek columns that echo the ancient Library of Alexandria,
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This!!!
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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
OnThisDay in 1958, Howard law student Bruce Boynton was jailed for sitting in the “White” section of a Trailways bus terminal in Richmond VA. The U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction, inspiring hundreds of Freedom Riders to ride South. mississippitoday.org/2024/12/20/o...
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On this day in 1958
On this day in 1958, Bruce Boynton was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only restaurant at a Virginia Trailways restaurant.
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Dear god does this really all need to happen approximately 2 days before end of days! Ill come back to you on this one 🤣 @create-glasgow.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
On top of everything else, this really reshapes how I think about Trumpism. Timely and important book. lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...
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The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything?
In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran takes the conversation about neoliberalism beyond the realm of economics, focusing instead on the law, the conservative reaction to the Civil Rights Movement…
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/12/2024
Miss one of our thought-provoking book talks with Authors Alliance (@authorsalliance.bsky.social) this year? Don’t worry—we’ve put them all together in a year-end recap, complete with session recordings. Catch up here 👉️ blog.archive.org/2024/12/17/r...
Covers of books from Internet Archive’s book talk series.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Big congratulations to @gabriellehecht.bsky.social, whose book "Residual Governance" has won the 2024 African Studies Association Best Book Prize! buff.ly/49GrfIr
Cover of Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht. Cover portrays a sandy and rocky landscape. In the foreground, a shirtless man, wearing blue pants and a black hat, chips away at the ground with a pick ax.
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Yeah! This happened! 🙏🎊
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Has anyone done any research (or know of any research) that looks at investment levels by industry sector? In particular, changing levels over time (stretching back as far as possible)
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Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"The case of Anderson v. TikTok (3rd Cir. 2024) is a great example of how accountability can be imposed. The court (correctly, in my view) rejected TikTok’s claim that it was immune under CDA Section 230 and allowed the girl’s family to sue." teachprivacy.com/the-tyranny-...
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The Tyranny of Algorithms
We live today increasingly under the tyranny of algorithms. They rule over us. They shape what we say and how we interact with each other. They shape
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‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📢 Call for Papers for the 2025 Race + IP conference venue- University of Pittsburgh in April 2025 The theme, Abolitionist Futures, focuses on the intersection of race, coloniality, and intellectual properties 🗓 Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2025 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2024/12...
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Call for Papers: ‘Race + IP 25: Abolitionist Futures’, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 17-19 April 2025 – CREATe
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Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Come work with me! I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations. www.queensu.ca/research/res...
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Yolande Bouka
#QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation
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Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Come work with me! I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations. www.queensu.ca/research/res...
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Yolande Bouka
#QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation
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STS @ YorkU @stsyorku.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We're holding our 1st Institute Research Workshop next week, showcasing our research on critical studies of #science, #technology & #innovation 5th & 6th December at 10am EST and via Zoom More details on our website: www.yorku.ca/research/its/ #STS #technoscience #sociology #anthropology
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Next week, @lsehumanrights.bsky.social will have the honour to host renowned legal scholar and member of South Africa's ICJ legal team, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, for our Annual Lecture. He will explore South Africa's complex relationship with int'l law & human rights, including the ICJ's case
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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I had a first go at setting up a starter pack of scholars working on Coloniality and/ or Critical Race Theory- please hit me up with further suggestions: go.bsky.app/VhaXTD6
A picture of scholars working on coloniality and critical race theory
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Debra J Farber @privacyguru.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My “Privacy, Data Protection, & Ethical Tech” Starter Pack #PrivacySky #EthicalAI #DataProtection go.bsky.app/HSRZtb8
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I've made many additions to my Privacy Law Starter Pack Part 2 go.bsky.app/4UdBwXE so you might want to check it out again. See also Privacy Law Starter Pack Part 1 go.bsky.app/KiuG5Yr
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
go.bsky.app/5TsAHdR IPBlawg's IP, Tech & AI Law Starter Pack - IP/IT Lawyers, Attorneys, Intellectual Property Law Firms, Legal Professionals, Professors & Commentators. #IPLaw #AILaw #TechLaw #ITLaw #Technology #GenAI Recommendations always welcome thank you. ^G
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Jeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Here’s an IP Profs starter pack. Message me if you are an intellectual property professor who wants to be added go.bsky.app/EUN2DAN
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Hannah Parsons-Morgan @beathas-ailsa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hey folks! I've made a starter pack for those working on or interested in the history and material culture of Ethopia and the wider Horn of Africa. It's currently a baby list as I'm not too sure who's on here, so please do suggest others and/or ask to be added. go.bsky.app/AvPYgdY
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Federico Tadei @federicotadei.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am putting together a starter pack with researchers working on the Economic History of Africa. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/EmGLkbT
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Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Alright folks I've filled the first starter pack for Africa News, Policy, Business, Econ, History, & Development. They allow up to 150 accounts. You can follow them here: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ I've started a second starter pack (currently with 81 additional accounts) here: go.bsky.app/LgaSjF9
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12/11/2024
I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!
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Skypacks - Collecting Starter Packs + Feeds @skypacks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
A Good Place to Start @mmasnick.bsky.social who writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties has selected 150 people that he follows and can recommend. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act). bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#copyright remains a key problem for the digital world. here's a copyright starter pack from @mrose.ink listing some of us who are trying to explain why, and what to do about it: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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