[8] Speaking to Vice's Motherboard, Kazemi explained the project, which made a huge number of websites inaccessible to those who'd enabled the Ethical Ad-Blocker was meant to dramatize the conflict traditional ad-blockers raise in allowing users to avoid ads but depriving websites of the revenue streams they rely on: "I like the idea of codifying a moral high road and then showing people in practice that the moral high ground is not an attainable thing.
[10] At Feel Train, Kazemi and Stanton have developed the StayWokeBot[11][12] in collaboration with activists DeRay Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe,[13] as well as the Shortcut app with radio program This American Life, which allows listeners to share audio clips on social media much like gifs facilitate sharing video clips.
In 2018, he was awarded a Mozilla-Ford Open Web fellowship, where he studied the technical infrastructure of the fediverse and people's decisions to leave centralized social media for decentralized services.
In 2023 Kazemi was awarded a research grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund along with Erin Kissane, building on his prior work, and focusing on community governance and moderation in decentralized social media servers.
Kazemi currently works for the Applied Social Media Lab at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, at Harvard University.