time for @benwizner's talk at #futureproofinglaw. @rcalo asked if we could talk about robots all day. Ben: "I'm here to tell you: no."
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Pictures of Rumsfeld naming his new solitaire app "PlayChurchill," and how his playing Churchill harmed the world.
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"We can't say what the world would look like if we didn't throw hundreds of billions of dollars at this problem."
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America is full of big guns and soft targets. If America were full of sleeper cells, we would know it by now.
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The terror threat is an overblown illusion, and at the same time held as our paramount interest.
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This is the livestream, btw. Tune in. http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/symposia/2017/livestream.html …
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National security logic: "We should gratefully allow the erosion of rights to prevent the erosion of more rights."
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Ben: What the leaders of the natsec state call deference to their expertise, founders would see as a conflict of interest
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The security clearance regime creates a bubble of indoctrination, enforces tenet of deference to officials with access
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Call out to notions of "lawfare" and "fifth column"
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Ben describes the lawfare blog as "a kind of online clubhouse for the national security set"
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he has not yet called anyone a horrible person who loves surveillance and defends torture
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exactly in those words, anyways
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"More than a little ironic that nat sec cheerleaders who brought us here... are reacting to the events of this week with shock and horror"
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"Is fear of terrorism as deep-seated as leaders believe it is? Or is it a language we've become accustomed to?"
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The people are ready for a politics that places courage at the center of citizenship, not fear.
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So now the
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(This was a very good talk, I highly recommend people watch the video for themselves).
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A comment from the back, "How can so many people be imprisoned for so long?" [Guantanamo detainees] +
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"If it's not a technical violation, it's at least a violation of every moral precept this country stands for."
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Ben: Yeah, I can't really say it better than that.
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@MargotKaminski asks about 702 reauthorization in this time,@benwizner says no one is optimistic about Congressional reform in general
Fin de la conversation
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