Everything Sarah B. Rogers said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Rogers: US sanctioned former EU official over Elon Musk enforcement threat
“We recently issued some sanctions, which we'll get into, and one of the individuals we sanctioned, ah, was a former EU official who threatened Elon Musk with enforcement action because X within the United States had said that it was going to host on a live, ah…”
Rogers: UK speech arrests in 2023 exceeded Russia, China, and Turkey
“So that was in a single year of slightly over 12,000 Brits arrested for speech acts, and that is more than were arrested that year in Russia, more than in China, more than in Turkey.”
Rogers: UK regulator Ofcom fines US websites that don't operate there
“Under the Online Safety Act, we now have active litigation by the relevant regulator Ofcom against several American websites. These are websites that don't reach into the UK. They're not, they're, these aren't websites dedicated to discussing the Queen. They'r…”
Rogers: UK sentenced a mother to 31 months for anti-migration tweet
“There was a thirty-one-month sentence handed down to a suburban mother named Lucy Connolly in the UK because after a man called Axel Rudabanka stabbed, I think it was a seven-year-old girl, an eight-year-old girl, and a nine-year-old girl at a birthday party, …”
Rogers: EU Digital Services Act acts as censorship tariff on US tech
“I've referred to the DSA before as a censorship tariff, because the cost of maintaining the censorship apparatus under the DSA is intentionally levied on specific companies, mostly American ones.”
Rogers: US House committee and CIA assessed COVID lab leak potential
“And another thing that was suppressed, was the assessment that the virus might have leaked from a lab, and we now know that was the same assessment of a House committee and the CIA.”
Rogers: Leaked emails show NGO's top priority was killing Musk's X
“We have emails that have leaked from some of these NGOs. So one of them, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Which is a British NGO whose leader was the target of some of our visa sanctions. There are emails exchanged with Democratic politicians in the Uni…”
Rogers: U.S. culture and tech platforms are shifting away from censorship
“But I think in the United States, we've shifted back toward a less censorious approach, and so have these platforms.”
Rogers: Blocking American social media would cost Keir Starmer his job
“And I think if Keir Starmer said we're putting up a great firewall and you're not allowed to access any American social media anymore, he'd be out of office.”
Sarah B. Rogers: European regulators fined X roughly 140 million euros or dollars
“There was a large fine handed down during my recent European tour against X, and I believe it was a hundred and forty million euros, but that might be dollars.”
Rogers: Existing defamation laws cover false AI deepfakes of public figures
“When it comes to deepfakes, I think we have, in, in America and in Europe, strong legal remedies against defamation. So if someone creates an image of a public figure that is false, and people are believing that image, and a reasonable viewer would believe tha…”
Rogers: NRA v. Vullo is the sole U.S. Supreme Court win against debanking
“There's been one successful Supreme Court case in U.S. History on viewpoint-based debanking, and that was my case which we won, and that was called NRA versus Vulo”
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