“Do Robots Have Free Speech?" | Byron Ruby | TEDxHarvardCollegeSalon

Описание: “Do Robots Have Free Speech? Social Media, the First Amendment, and the Future of Political Campaigning”

Automated social media accounts, also known as “bots,” have proliferated on online platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Increasingly, these bots are being used as surrogates for disseminating (often negative) campaign slogans and other sound bites. What are the implications for future political discourse? Are there ways to counteract their effects? If the government was to regulate the use of these bots, would it be constitutional? These questions form the basis of a forthcoming publication.

Byron Ruby is third year law student at Harvard Law School and a joint masters degree candidate with Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is currently leading a working group within HLS United, a student coalition formed after the election to resist discrimination and promote civic engagement, and serving as a research assistant to Professor Noah Feldman on work related to constitutional law.
Byron has a number of political experiences, first having worked on the Obama campaign in 2008, then interning in Congress in 2010, and volunteering on the 2012 Obama campaign in Virginia. This past fall, Byron spent his weekends volunteering on the ground in New Hampshire with the Clinton campaign.

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