Honoring Amber Nicole Thurman
Amber Nicole Thurman should be alive right now. But in 2022, due to Georgia’s extreme six-week abortion ban (which has since been struck down), Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Black woman, mother, daughter, sister, friend, and human being, died. Amber…
New(ish) KOSA, Same Old Problems
We’ve written extensively about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and we’ve made our position clear: KOSA’s plan for online censorship threatens our cherished human rights. In the words of Daly Johnson on Woodhull’s Blog from over a year ago,…
Woodhull & Decrim NY Submit Comments to New York State’s AG Office Raising Privacy and Freedom of Expression Concerns in the Implementation of SAFE for Kids Act
Earlier this year New York state passed the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act. The bill proposes to prohibit social media companies from providing children with access to addictive feeds without parental consent. Similar to other attempts at…
Comments on New York State’s Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) Act
The Honorable Letitia James New York State Attorney General The Capitol Albany, NY 12224 Re: Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking pursuant to New York General Business Law section 1500 et seq Dear Attorney General James: Earlier this year, New York…
LGBTQIA+ Death Penalty
Sentencing LGBTQIA+ People to Death Recently, The Appeal analyzed criminal cases in which queer defendants faced the death penalty, examining how their LGBTQIA+ identity played into the outcome. The result of this analysis? Anti-LGBTQIA+ bias (unsurprisingly) influenced more than 50%…