Now do RFK Jr impeachment

On the news that Google Search As We Know It Is Dead, I recall that way back in 1997, I read an article (in the WaPo probably) discussing two new search engines, Google and AllTheWeb, and I tried them both and decided that AllTheWeb was awesome and would forever change WWW use and Google was meh

"In reality, we are seeing a classic case of what many of our middle school science teachers warned us about: 'correlation' being sold as 'causation.'"

RightsCon emerged from a recognition that defending human rights in the digital age requires international solidarity—and that need has not disappeared. We stand in solidarity with RightsCon's organizers and the global digital rights community www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

my hot First Amendment take on the golden calf/Trump statue is that those churches must have had to skimp on the gold because that thing is way too slim

Today, I was scheduled to be a presenter on a panel at Rightscon titled "Is Freedom of Expression Dead? Rethinking free speech in times of authoritarianism." Really sucks that it was cancelled by pressure from an authoritarian government.

And apparently not a moment of that was spent on urban public transit

Today, I was scheduled to be a presenter on a panel at Rightscon titled "Is Freedom of Expression Dead? Rethinking free speech in times of authoritarianism." Really sucks that it was cancelled by pressure from an authoritarian government.

I am back in the US after planning to be in Lusaka for this week. Re the Rightscon cancellation, read this first-person account "I was one of the Taiwanese civil society participants whose exclusion had reportedly become a condition for the summit to proceed." lezismore.org/rightscon202...

EFF sees through the thin veil of internet censorship bills that claim to "protect the kids." Age-gating the internet is not the answer, and we're fighting back. eff.org/spring

Americans also understand that the Court makes mistakes and appreciates the rare moments when the Justices acknowledge them (and I mean acknowledge their own personal wrong votes, not reverse decisions they dissented from or did not participate in).

Graduation

Wow. Apparently I completely misunderstood the concept of independent oversight.

Did you know EFF advocates for privacy and free speech across the globe? From fighting encryption-breaking laws to pushing back against internet shutdowns, we believe your rights should follow you online—no matter where you are. Stand with us today: eff.org/spring

I guess this is my most controversial Star Wars opinion.

I spoke with Lizzie O'Shea about age verification and privacy. Rather telling that since the Australian under-16 social media ban, calls to the country's Helpline have increased.

In our latest Speaking Freely, attorney Lizzie O'shea discusses the impacts of Australia's current age verification and privacy laws on freedom of expression and what the rest of us should learn from the country's examples. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF joins our allies in calling for the immediate release of Saudi Wikipedia contributor and friend of EFF Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was recently upheld. alqst.org/en/post/ngo...

“Why would we, ... in the name of protecting people, create a whole other legal mandate that requires the collection and storage of even more personally identifying information that would be subject to either data thieves or data breaches?” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @nbcnews.com.

If you haven't been paying attention to niche national security law, you should now. This surveillance program collects communications from all over the globe--and when folks talk to people in the US, the US side of the convo is stored and the FBI can sift through it without a warrant. A lil 🧵:

If you feel the same way, I’d love to hear your stories. I even turned comments on for this one!

If you feel the same way, I’d love to hear your stories. I even turned comments on for this one!

Age-verification laws are sold as child protection, but @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social tells us 76% of sex educators say they threaten sex ed access. The same logic is playing out on social media: IG banned @bellesaco.bsky.social for saying “clitoris.” Vague laws are a Trojan horse for abuse.

My latest post in this series looks at internet shutdowns as another digital legacy of the Arab Spring.

A harmonized approach to denying young people their fundamental rights to speak and receive information. Shameful example of pseudo tech solutionism.

+1. We'll regret it and find it as unnecessary as the V-chip. And it will be really hard to undo and leave lots of young people who rely on the online world to find community and resources not available to them more isolated than ever.

Hopefully nothing comes out of the grand jury to which any information to which any information obtained form Reddit will be provided. But this is worth watching closely.

Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) www.eff.org/press/relea...

I published this yesterday. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Today I learned that my friend Ahmed Shihab Eldin is among those detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"We are in a time of conflicts started by rich men, amid an ecological collapse, and our concern is children being online? ... Age gating punishes young for crises they did not create, whilst protecting those truly responsible from accountability." New Speaking Freely! www.eff.org/pages/speaki...

Our latest Speaking Freely interview is live 🗣️ This time we're joined by Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco to discuss how she sees freedom of expression as a communal value necessary to combatting structures of power. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"We are in a time of conflicts started by rich men, amid an ecological collapse, and our concern is children being online? ... Age gating punishes young for crises they did not create, whilst protecting those truly responsible from accountability." New Speaking Freely! www.eff.org/pages/speaki...

oranges, poranges www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

When I first started doing free speech work way back in 1997 and harm-to-kids issues would come up (at that particular moment, the main concerns were 'satanic' music and violent TV), people would frequently admonish me that surely I would feel different once I had kids of my own 1/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump admin tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/...

As I say herein, we should be very, very concerned about a grand jury investigation into people who criticize ICE in subreddits. Like very very very concerned about DOJ overreach theintercept.com/2026/04/10/r... via @ryandevereaux.bsky.social & @theintercept.com

From what I have seen on social media, commenters are always super nice to journalists and supportive of their reporting and I am sure the interactions on this app will not need some extraordinary amount of oversight to weed out abuse, harassment, stalking, etc.

The EU’s Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning + other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately. But it's too early to celebrate. This is a zombie proposal. It keeps coming back and must not be allowed to return through the back door. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Has Congress yet called for better training for the President?

Has Congress yet called for better training for the President?

People are like "Artemis II is going to be offline for 40 minutes" and I'm like "Dude, do you know how easy it is to hack those parental controls?"

Quick! Someone ask Sen. Mike Lee if saying "national security"has some magic, talismanic power www.facebook.com/watch/?v=414...

86 years ago today, Walter Chaplinsky was handing out Jehovah’s Witness literature & preaching on a street in Rochester, NH. What happened next birthed the regrettable fighting words doctrine, which is bandied about these days. In commemoration of the anniversary ... a thread. 1/

WI Gov. Evers vetoes the state's age verification requirement for many online publishers, citing adult privacy rights. Now everyone else: do the same - though also acknowledge the infringement of the rights of young people to speak and access information. content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

TIL DHS has an official "Savior."

Proud to once again support the law firms standing up for the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession.

It's true! I said this! (And what I said is also true: recommending something to someone is speech; playing a video for someone is speech, reacting to a statement with an emoji is speech, etc.)

If anyone reading this designs search engines, if I put the name of any business (like a restaurant) in a search engine, the very first (and very often only) result I want to see is that business's website. I do not want to see the business's TripAdvisor or Yelp listing. I know how to find those.

"I think there's a huge tendency to take all the benefits of free speech for granted and focus myopically on the harms, real and perceived, of speech." This is a great conversation between two global freedom of expression experts: @mchangama.bsky.social and @jillian.bsky.social

For those wondering ... www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/r...