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Also known as Michael Wayne Godwin, Michael W. Godwin, Mike W. Godwin, Michael Godwin

American attorney and author

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Within Vinony's link graph, Mike Godwin is referenced by 166 other articles, and connects out to University of Texas at Austin, efforts to ban TikTok in the United States and Wikipedia.

It is catalogued under topics including 1956 births, American bloggers and American lawyers.

Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Born
1956
Works
2

Top works

  • Internet law
  • Cyber rights

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Origin
New York

Discography

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
87
Total plays
147

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Godwin">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Mike Godwin

Quotes

  • As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

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Key facts

Born
Michael Wayne Godwin , Houston , Texas, U.S.
Education
University of Texas, Austin ( BA , JD )
Known for
Godwin's law

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

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Mike Godwin at Wikimedia 2010.jpg
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Mike Godwin
date of birth
1956-10-26
name in native language
Michael Wayne Godwin
social media followers
49949
Sources (7)

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Encyclopedic overview

Michael Wayne Godwin is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme. From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. In March 2011, he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board. Godwin has been a contributing editor of Reason magazine since 1994. In April 2019, he was elected to the Internet Society board. From 2015 to 2020, he was general counsel and director of innovation policy at the R Street Institute. In August 2020, he and the Blackstone Law Group filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of the employees of TikTok, where he went on to work from June 2021 until June 2022. Since October 2022, he has worked as the policy and privacy lead at Anonym, a "privacy-safe advertising" startup.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mike Godwin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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