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Ari Cohn

@aricohn.com

First Amendment & defamation lawyer. Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org (x2) Illini/music junkie/oofnik. “A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.” Posts are my own. https://linktr.ee/aricohn

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Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · 9h ago

Today Senate Commerce marks up several Bad Internet Bills, including KOSA - which for years experts have warned violates the 1st Amendment. Instead of fixing the problems, its sponsors denied they exist & tried to disguise them with obfuscatory language My statement: techfreedom.org/kosa-still-v...

KOSA has been an Internet censorship bill from the start. It imposes what courts have refused—on First Amendment grounds—to impose for decades: a duty to protect listeners from subjective, unknowable reactions to constitutionally protected speech. It creates a "papers please" social media regime where every single social media user will be forced to identify themselves before speaking on social media, undermining their constitutional right to read and speak anonymously, and enabling government retaliation against disfavored ideas and expression. And it hands the Federal Trade Commission — which has of late granted itself the authority to enforce what it thinks customers should want rather than protect against actual deception — a ready-made tool to coerce platforms into removing speech it dislikes from the Internet. Despite years of warnings from experts and civil society across the political and ideological spectrum, KOSA's sponsors have stubbornly refused to acknowledge and fix these critical First Amendment problems. They have instead attempted to hide them behind increasingly obfuscatory language. But the First Amendment is not so easily fooled, and the Commerce Committee must put an end to this constitutional fiasco once and for all.
Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last wk.

You could have said "Donald Trump was doing trigonometry problems in his head for fun" and it would have been more believable than "Donald Trump was reflecting"

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Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last wk.

I recently did an impulse and nabbed a pair of 6-foot tall ribbon speakers for an unbeatable price, drive to the burbs to pick them up and got them inside while S.O. was out. He has not yet yelled at me, so now I'm worried that he is simply planning to murder me in my sleep.

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last wk.

Just the drifting smoke in Chicago from the Canadian wildfires the other week led to one of the worst sinus infections I've ever had. I have no idea how people survive in places where that stuff is common.

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last wk.

I have to say, the Jardiance commercials contain more instances of the phrase "swelling of the skin between the anus and genitals" than I would prefer

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 3w ago

June 10: Ken Paxton receives $275,000 from the chair of the board of regents at Texas Tech, which faces potential sanctions by the Big 12 over a quarterback at the center of a betting scandal. June 11: Paxton threatens the Big 12 with a $200 million lawsuit if they sanction Texas Tech.

Texas Tech chair donated $275K to Paxton before he intervened for Sorsby

Cody Campbell, a major Texas Tech booster and GOP megadonor, has vocally defended Brendan Sorsby’s right to play amid a legal battle stemming from his betting scandal.

texastribune.org

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a really good list of problems, to which I add: there is no way to prove someone is someone else's parent, much less that they're the parent with decisionmaking legal authority! Do you know how many contentious divorces I've had to deal with over my career?

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · 3w ago

So we've got this woman getting into a complete stranger's car alone in a foreign country, the woman who went to Dubai to stay with a guy she only knew through Facebook. Who the hell is raising these braindead people with no common sense? nypost.com/2026/07/09/w...

Tourist’s Italy dream vacation takes nightmare turn after she’s kidnapped twice in one day

While staying in the town, she joined a meet-up with fellow kiteboarders that seemed harmless, but soon became frightening and dangerous.

nypost.com

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last mo.

I see that Jewel is smarter than Kroger/Mariano's, and asks "how many store-provided bags did you use" to close the loophole in Mariano's "How many bags *would you like* to purchase"

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last mo.

I give S.O. shit for his Old Lady plant hobby, but I really couldn't be more proud/impressed He just entered his first-ever submissions in The Gesneriad Society's annual convention competition His earrings commemorating the org's 75th anniversary got a perfect score (has never happened before)

Gesnedriad earrings with ribbons on pedestal in cloche Gold earrings in the shape of flowers from the Primulina genus angled downward, with large oval diamonds at the top near the ear and green/yellow gemstones inside the flowerGold earrings in the shape of flowers from the Primulina genus angled downward, with large oval diamonds at the top near the ear and green/yellow gemstones inside the flowerGold earrings in the shape of flowers from the Primulina genus angled downward, with large oval diamonds at the top near the ear and green/yellow gemstones inside the flower
Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · last mo.

Meeting the exospheric bar set by the irreplaceable @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social is a daunting task. But what's life without new challenges? Can't promise the same deep literary/philosophical cuts, but I can promise to keep it fresh, relevant, & entertaining (spicy, even). Exciting things to come!

TechFreedom@techfreedom.org · last mo.

Witness the peaceful transfer of power! On a new Tech Policy Podcast, outgoing host @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social hands the reins to @aricohn.com. To mark the occasion, they go on one final mega-rant about the state of social media and AI regulation. techfreedom.simplecast.com/episodes/438...