Good write up of US abuse of the terrorist org designation process against an Italian provider of privacy-protective internet services. This should be a high priority issue for orgs in this space. It shines a light on legal and technical vulnerabilities to US pressure that will be exploited again.

USA: Terrorism designation has global consequences for open internet and free expression - ARTICLE 19

The US sanctioning of infrastructure provider Autistici/Inventati violates international freedom of expression standards and sets a dangerous precedent.

article19.org

On today’s grim one-year anniversary of the Trump administration’s boat strikes campaign — which has snuffed out at least 227 lives — it’s more important than ever to insist that the strikes are not simply inhumane and ineffective, but illegal. My reflections in @thehill.com :

Trump’s boat strikes are illegal. Does it matter?

An ACLU attorney argues that the Trump administration’s boat strikes off the Venezuelan coast are illegal, immoral, and ineffective, citing the deaths of Trinidadian nationals Chad Joseph and…

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Will never stop being surreal that stuff like this keeps happening in the land of the First Amendment www.reuters.com/business/med...

Trump says NBC's Welker to be reported to FCC over characterization of his endorsement record

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sunday that NBC's Kristen Welker will be reported ​to the Federal Communications Commission for "rebuke or punishment," after he said ‌she re...

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Sure seems like state action to compel a private company to suppress protected speech in a content-based way.......

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here are the categories of lawful but harmful speech, many of which teens have a First Amendment right to see without government interference, that Meta will suppress in order to appease the government.

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COME WORK at the ACLU! @aclu-norcal.bsky.social is hiring attorneys to work on tech and civil rights (my team) and the criminal legal/immigration system. These folks will work at the cutting edge of legal and policy efforts in California and beyond. Apply here: www.aclunorcal.org/jobs/staff-a...

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Develop and carry out litigation and policy advocacy to advance to protect and defend civil rights and civil liberties for all Californians.

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It's hard to see or write a story about chill -- about what *isn't* said -- so it's important to pay attention to the visible signs. The Administration can silence a lot of speech without directly "censoring" anything. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Exclusive: ‘The View’ throttles back political candidate bookings following FCC inquiry

Since February, the ABC daytime talk show has cut its bookings of candidates for office.

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Anyhoo, here's a paper of mine that came out this week on the dangers of allowing the US gvt to ban access to speech products on the grounds that it is just regulating ownership or exports or something, in the name of national security. But good thing it was a one-off mistake!

Evelyn Douek@evelyndouek.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited that the final version of my article "TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon" has been published. It argues that the case is a shameful example of the all-too-common tradition betraying 1A principles in the name of national security www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The rule against viewpoint discrimination is one of the most imptl in First A law. But as I show in a new paper, forthcoming in the U Penn Law Review, the test of viewpoint discrimination has changed a LOT in the past few decades, in good ways and bad. 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excited that the final version of my article "TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon" has been published. It argues that the case is a shameful example of the all-too-common tradition betraying 1A principles in the name of national security www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Tiktok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon | The Supreme Court Review: Vol 2025, No null

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I am thrilled that my article exploring the STRONG protection that 1A law provides against govt jawboning is now out in @uchilrev.bsky.social. It is deeply depressing however that understanding the law of jawboning remains so impt today lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Fun fact: the "true" in "true threats are unprotected speech" in First Amendment law comes from the Court wanting to ensure that the government could not go after hyperbole or "vituperative, abusive, and inexact" language in the political arena to prosecute people for criticisms of the president

For example from Gentile v. State Bar Nevada, 501 U.S. 1030, (1991)

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe

The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

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I can't keep track -- is TikTok causing young people to protest too much, or too little? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Absolute word-salad of a response from YouTube's CEO about the decision to ban Donald Trump and its content moderation policies. "We're doing the best we can and work with whoever is in power" is definitely reassuring stuff! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/m...

"Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship" (Executive Order 14149) going well!

Skye@simplyskye.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Brendan Carr: “Look at the results so far — PBS defunded, NPR defunded, Joy Reid gone from MSNBC, Sleepy Eye Chuck Todd gone, Jim Acosta gone, John Dickerson gone, Colbert is leaving, CBS is under new ownership — & soon enough CNN is going to have new ownership as well” #NoKings protest tomorrow 🤘🏼

Chilling effects are hard to measure or document. They are what doesn't get said over here, because of some gvt action over there. But pieces like this are a small part of making visible what is obvious: right now, chilling effects are everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze

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This is corrupt, yes, but the real reward and danger remains the transfer of control over content on the platform into the hands of political allies

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo ago

That's billion. With a B.

Helpful to have my research agenda compiled into one handy dandy chart though

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 6mo ago

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

The article quotes a tech-transparency group "blasting" X for hosting this account, but it's actually a good thing that Americans can hear what Iran's leaders have to say, unfiltered by Trump. Seems especially important right now.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 6mo ago

Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has verified account on X, Elon Musk's platform

Famously, the First Amendment exists so that the press can freely flatter government officials www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

washingtonpost.com

The 1A may not be the best vehicle for discussing the costs and benefits of professional licensing in general. But it does provide a basis for challenging powerful monopolies in states where there is little appetite for regulatory reform, like NY, as I argue here. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Professional Speech, the Lochnerized First Amendment, and the Unauthorized Practice of Law (Chapter 14) - Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly

Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly - September 2025

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My thoughts for @knightcolumbia.org on what to do about the private as well as gov authoritarianism that helps explain why, even tho they are not broadly popular, the admin's efforts at ideological control have often been so successful...

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 7mo ago

For our Reconstructing Free Expression series, @genevievelakier.bsky.social looks at why the First Amendment fails to fulfill its anti-authoritarian role, and what doctrinal changes can be made to facilitate the creation of a more anti-authoritarian public sphere. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-ant...

For our Reconstructing Free Expression series, @genevievelakier.bsky.social looks at why the First Amendment fails to fulfill its anti-authoritarian role, and what doctrinal changes can be made to facilitate the creation of a more anti-authoritarian public sphere. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-ant...

The Anti-Authoritarian First Amendment and Its Limits

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Lifting up a rich history of dissent from orthodoxy and perseverance in the face of oppression is a deep form of patriotism. Broadcasters should respond accordingly.

Evelyn Douek@evelyndouek.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Oh yeah, what a great way to commemorate -- nothing more American than the government telling you what to broadcast www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

Oh yeah, what a great way to commemorate -- nothing more American than the government telling you what to broadcast www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

FCC calls for more 'patriotic, pro-America' programming in run-up to 250th anniversary

The "Pledge America Campaign" urges broadcasters to focus on programming that highlights "the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump Administration today."

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I will be testifying at this panel also, along with @beidelson.bsky.social and Eugene Volokh. it should be interesting bc panelists are very far apart: Did the fed gov do too little to repress antisemitic student speech on campus after Oct 2023? or did it instead flagrantly violate 1A rights?

I reviewed Prof. Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social's forthcoming Chicago Law Rev @uchilrev.bsky.social article on Jawboning for Jotwell! @jotwell.bsky.social Check out my review: conlaw.jotwell.com/throwing-the... - and, more importantly! - her article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc

rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 7mo ago

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...