The thought of reading this fills me with inertia and desire to do literally anything else. But it's incredibly important! And @domingosmiguel.bsky.social read it.

I love “We Can Just Do Things” as a description of what ATProto is enabling so much.

Ooh I hadn’t seen this image. So good.

Excited to have @daphnek.bsky.social join me on the Anchor Change podcast this week to talk about the law and online speech including how trust and safety is becoming a compliance function. open.substack.com/pub/anchorch...

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

I'm unimpressed by Reddit's lawsuit against Perplexity et al. In the process of pleading notably weak DMCA claims, I think Reddit pleads itself out of court on its state-law claims. 1/ cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u...

Oh hell yes. This is like in a movie when two giant, comically inept, and heavily armed bad guys face off.

If you are someone who has the privilege to do this, DO IT. Incremental retreat from constitutional rights by the powerful endangers everyone else's rights in the long term.

Hey, @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy -- thank you *so* much for keeping this well-formatted, usable copy of the DSA 4-column doc alive on the web. www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/u... All archivists are heroes.

This hurts way more than losing CBS.

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

In this house we believe MTG stands for Magic The Gathering

I want journalists and authors to get paid for their work. And I know that AI is part of the problem. But the problem I personally experience multiple times a day is that it takes 500 frustrating steps to view content, even when I am a paying subscriber. 1/

This Jamie Raskin letter to YouTube is hot, hot fire. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Awwww. In the form to submit comments to the European Data Protection Board, there is a dropdown menu of countries that lists the EU countries in alph order first, and then rest-of-world countries. It still has the United Kingdom in the first part of the list 🥹

Internal platform dissensus about what content to remove is normal. Having policy people whose jobs depend on relationship with govt want to accommodate govt is annoying, but normal. It's lots of other people's job to push back on that. I'm not sure what other deliberative process people imagine.

This does not bode well, and I didn’t know they could even do that.

Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information. It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/ verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...

This starts tomorrow! I will be moderating a little chat about jawboning with @genevievelakier.bsky.social and Derek Bambauer. How timely :)

Very good overview of the current state of Platform data access under the DSA by @daphnek.bsky.social verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...

Commission’s preliminary findings against X and TikTok dropped yesterday. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

First Amendment nerds, help me find a case! It’s mid-century and a justice (Brennan?) writes a dissent (or concurrence?) that talks about disparate impact on African American speakers, citing studies about differences in language use. Thank you

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

@dwillner.bsky.social might just force my to change my positions on law and automated content moderation. I'd resent that fiercely if he weren't also so nice and funny.

😢

I wish I could be in DC for this great event with real, professional, serious agency veterans talking about the abuses and First Amendment violations that have beset the FCC and FTC. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-people...

Very fond of the cursive lower case j and the emdash, which is a real workhorse in my own writing.

I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.

Goddammit, I miss Google Reader.

Do I just ask Google web search particularly difficult questions, or does its AI just really suck at answering them?

TIL that Elinor Ostrom got a Nobel Prize!! This was in 2009. Apparently between working 60-hour weeks and having a one-year old I missed it. I could not be more delighted, truly.

Thread on the list of countries reaching must-carry rulings, or adopting must-carry laws. As of my Who Do You Sue article, the list was Germany, Italy, and Brazil. Brazil was special because courts awarded parodists DAMAGES from YouTube and the (c)-holder for a DMCA-ish takedown. 1/

Oh lord. I feel both seen and ill. H/t @gateklons.bsky.social

Resurfacing this. I don’t know what I was thinking posting the words “DG JURI” when all of Europe was asleep.

I’m ashamed of my inability to keep up with Mexican legal developments. Fortunately, @joanbarata.bsky.social is writing about the big case that’s been pending there forever.

Wow, this illustration of text and data mining from DG JURI. This is 2018, so it wasn't GenAI. Someone labored to depict this guy -- who is clearly a bureaucrat, not a researcher -- mining for data gold.

This report on platform transparency under the DSA in the Global South is excellent – both as a nuanced explanation of the DSA and for the significant, detailed considerations it adds from other regions. drive.google.com/file/d/1fpKY...

Have I ever thought the Federal Circuit was right and the 9th was wrong before? But that 9th ruling seemed bonkers.

Damn Meta for making me side with the MPA on something. variety.com/2025/digital...

On the record, I think sneering at these people that they’re somehow *bad* because they stayed on Twitter for this long is incredibly counterproductive it’s great that more people have escaped the Mussolini Piss Hole and come to Bluesky actually, their numbers shall strengthen us

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

Strong First Amendment Council looking for the people the administration just silenced for their ICE-tracking.

A correction to my premature celebration of DSA Data Access Day. There is still time to plan your party!!

Belated happy DSA Data Access Day to all who celebrate!! October 2 was the first day that national regulators could start formally reviewing researcher applications for Art. 40.4 access to platforms' internally held data. (Bc that was 3 months after the Delegated Act came out).

If you see “ADF” and think “Alternativ dür Feutschland” that’s actually not so far off.

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois. We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

What if we all just agreed that "VLOP" stands for *both* Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines. If we actually need to distinguish them, we can revert to saying VLOPSEs or VLOPs/SEs any time we need to! But in the meantime we can use simpler language.

I keep hearing this is over, is this the time it’s really over??? www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now. We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...