ND in the News: May 2022
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Yahoo
Big tech is fighting a new Texas law targeting social media — here's what happens next
May 16, 2022
“Even though there's been an increase in [use of the docket] the last few years, it is still relatively unusual for the Supreme Court to stay or vacate a stay of a lower court decision,” University of Notre Dame law professor Samuel Bray explains.
The New York Times
What does the 'post-liberal right' actually want?
May 13, 2022
This is a conversation about what Patrick Deneen’s “postliberal” political project looks like — and the tensions and contradictions it reveals about the modern populist right.
CNN
If Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account, it could pave the way for other platforms to do the same
May 13, 2022
Although far from perfect, Twitter has, at least historically, been viewed as “more nuanced in their content moderation” and as “trying to do the right thing more often than other platforms,” said Kristin Martin, professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Mendoza College of Business
Associated Press
Some Catholic abortion foes are uneasy about overturning Roe
May 13, 2022
Professor O. Carter Snead, who teaches law and political science at the University of Notre Dame, said via email that most Catholics engaging in anti-abortion activism “are not hard political partisans but rather people seeking to care for moms and babies by whatever means are available.”
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Notre Dame Law School
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Associated Press
Catholic cardinal, others arrested on Hong Kong security law
May 12, 2022
Zen’s arrest marks “the darkest day to date in the Chinese Communist Party’s incremental destruction of the vitality of Hong Kong and is likely to provoke a reconsideration by the Vatican of its several-year long diplomatic engagement with Beijing over the ordination of bishops,” said Lionel Jensen, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, who helped welcome Zen to the U.S. school in 2019.
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East Asian Languages and Cultures, History
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Associated Press
Justices to meet for 1st time since leak of draft Roe ruling
May 12, 2022
Sherif Gergis, a University of Notre Dame law professor who once was a law clerk for Alito, agreed. “I’ll be surprised if it changes very much,” Gergis said.
The Washington Post
Hong Kong arrests 90-year-old cardinal on foreign collusion charges
May 11, 2022
Lionel Jensen, an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, said Zen’s arrest “sounds the death knell of Hong Kong.”
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East Asian Languages and Cultures, History
The Guardian
Reversing Trump Twitter ban will provoke user backlash, Elon Musk warned
May 11, 2022
Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame in Chicago, said Musk would face a backlash if he reinstated Trump’s account. “If Musk is concerned that many people were upset that Trump was banned, he should see how many more people would be upset if Trump was not banned,” she said. “Musk only appears to be worried about the opinion of a small group of individuals who incite violence or perpetuate hate speech.”
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Mendoza College of Business
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Associated Press
Running Twitter may be much harder than Elon Musk thinks
May 11, 2022
“If Musk is concerned that many people were upset that Trump was banned, he should see how many more people would be upset if Trump was not banned,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Mendoza College of Business
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Associated Press
Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s ban of Donald Trump
May 10, 2022
“If Musk is concerned that many people were upset that Trump was banned, he should see how many more people would be upset if Trump was not banned,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. “Musk only appears to be worried about the opinion of a small group of individuals who incite violence or perpetuate hate speech.”
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Mendoza College of Business