The Ref is the best Christmas movie. Fight me.

The criticism of 60 Minutes by Miller and the like ignores the key point. This administration is so awful, even media owned and controlled by people friendly to it still are actively reporting on its flagrant crimes. That speaks volumes, and I dont think this point should be lost in the shuffle.

Can you imagine the pearl clutching if Biden or Obama had talked like Trump about censorship? The fact that we have normalized the idea that it's "Just Trump being Trump" and not the president talking like this is not okay, and he should be getting called out on it publicly by...literally everyone.

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Behold: The mother of all right of publicity examples for explaining the concept in class. www.law360.com/ip/articles/...

I'd do it. Is there a form to register for this service?

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University of Wisconsin–Madison privacy researcher Emilee Rader helped us understand how it works. buff.ly/zYO15Zo

Blog Post: District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties–Bogard v. TikTok blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

FCC Commissioner Gomez on 60 Minutes Censorship: www.fcc.gov/document/gom...

Get "it" here.

Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be…

I have a full set of Craftsman wrenches, and even taken collectively, they are still less than a tool than Brendan Carr.

The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

Yes to both.

Yep.

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John Bellamy Foster published a special Monthly Review issue to commemorate and engage with Bob McChesney's legacy. My contribution focuses on Bob’s "unfinished project" of designing a new kind of local journalism based on public funding and democratic governance: monthlyreview.org/articles/rei...

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Proud to have joined the impressive list of scholars and practitioners who signed onto this amicus brief in Simon v. Ivey (Academic Freedom Case) cornell.app.box.com/s/73jpdps7yf...

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continuing my rant against this stupid TikTok deal, it requires “retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation,” which means nothing because our regulators don't function and you can't trust anybody in this chain

someone could do the funniest thing rn

Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese. Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat

The stupid......it burns! www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index...

I was having breakfast at Al's in Dinkytown just before the semester ended, and they had (according to them) Mureka content, AI versions of songs, playing in the background. www.law360.com/media/articl...

Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do). www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Judge Hannah Dugan convicted on felony charge for obstructing ICE enforcement in Milwaukee, WI www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

As a former TV journalist now teaching media law I’m nervous about what media consolidation + AI will do to local newsrooms: fewer jobs & fewer voices. Its why I too joined Democracy Forward’s FCC filing asking the agency to look @ past deals. Did local journalism suffer? www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Traffic to UK porn sites has dropped 77% since age-verification went live. UK legislator celebrates, saying she's "very pleased" with the drop, calling it a "green shoot." I don't know how they can make it any clearer that they view AV as a tool to police adult sexuality. Organize accordingly.

Don't want to steal @karlbode.com's thunder, but as an academic researcher, sitting here wondering if the enshittification of tik-tok under new owners can be quantified as part for an empirical study. If we score post-Elon X as a single enshittification unit, how many units are we looking at total?

My joint comment in FCC 22-459: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen... We ask for an actual analysis of merger benefits before changes to the media ownership rules occur. Since Carr is now promising to hold stations accountable to their public interest obligations, he can now put his $ where his mouth is.

I'm so old I remember when the Supreme Court undermined nearly 30 years of internet law precedent to permit state action mandated prior restraint because of national security concerns with Tiktok data collection. But I guess those were the old days...like way back (checks notes)...in..um...January?

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Carr's just moved his desire for content regulation to include reality at this point. Give him some credit for the personal growth. Instead of just regulating speech he hates, he's now extended the scheme and is taking on empirical reality itself.

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Its nice to see all the greatest hits on §230 reform back in the playlist. Kinda like a Guardian's of the Galaxy soundtrack, except now Thanos is trying to kill online free speech. hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

Remember when reality wasn't flexible and legally established things were...um...established? Good times. www.law360.com/telecom/arti...

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And guess what? The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!

COMMISSIONER GOMEZ: “.. No edit to a website can erase the long-standing congressional intent to create a multiparty, independent regulatory agency like the FCC that is accountable to Congress and the American people, not the whims of the White House.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.

Just a semi-regular reminder that this, all of this, could be fixed if just a handful of people honored their oaths just long enough to find their fucking spines. That's all it takes to right the ship headed at ramming speed for the iceberg with "it'll work this time!...Honest!" graffiti on it.

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