The lead attorney for the FCC calls for prosecution of Google — and much of the rest of the internet — for distribution of obscenity.

this is a top 1 court filing btw 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

The Supreme Court has, with an unsigned order, allowed Texas's app store age-verification law to remain in effect. Porn, once again, has the camel's nose under the tent for greater surveillance and censorship of speech.

www.ilpfoundry.us/killswitch-c... my article from the foundry's symposium is up!

happy 250th, America

NCOSE, one of the main groups pushing KOSA, has been caught citing fake cases in an attempt to shut down legal sex work. Why are Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov still treating the faith-based, anti-porn group as respectable, reliable legislative partner?

THAT'S MY RESEARCH ASSISTANT!!! I've told y'all before. @elizabethsipod.bsky.social is the next generation of tech policy and First Amendment law experts!! She's got some fascinating new research coming out soon too. Stay tuned! Y'all got a great one FIRE 🔥👏🏻

What these people are actually supporting is total and complete removal of anonymity from the web, and cutting off millions of vulnerable kids lifelines and ability to get news and information abt the world, all for zero benefit and lots of harm

Unless they're on social media. Then Pritzker wants to make sure that trans kids have no support network they can turn to, since he's trying to kick them off social media, despite tons of evidence of how helpful it's been to LGBTQ kids.

I am so excited to work with @thefireorg.bsky.social this fall!

I also don't love how we're socializing/normalizing casual surveillance for teens in general. Giving over your personal information (ID/biometrics etc) is merely the cost of entry to participating in society. That's really not great.

Folks like Jonathan Haidt warn about the "anxious generation." What about the lonely generation? Teens are steadily losing access to community. Loneliness is a major risk factor for a multitude of mental health repercussions, including suicide. This can't be the right result.

TIL malls throughout the country are increasingly restricting minors. Some even require mandatory ID checks for anyone who looks young. So teens can't go to the mall, they can't be online...where exactly do we expect them to go? www.youthrights.org/issues/age-d...

The govt’s effort to remove anonymity from social media/the internet is not remotely about “protecting children”, it’s about enabling stuff like this

If you watch one thing today make it this. Absolutely phenomenal debunking of the idea that social media and cell phones are causing a youth mental health crisis, and who that false narrative ultimately serves

well this is new

NEW: Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found.

law.justia.com/cases/federa... impressive mental gymnastics by the majority here. disappointing outcome to say the least

I pray that the sports headlines tomorrow are just rapist loses to bussi

a loss for carter hart is a net win for society as a whole

2001: A Space Odyssey should serve as a reminder that you should be able to disable AI features

Copyright law affects free expression, research, libraries, education, and the right to repair. A major restructuring of the Copyright Office deserves hearings and debate. That’s not what this bill got. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

www.instagram.com/reel/DZiztpV... my reel about Poshmark’s age verification (I’m very new to doing TikTok for the modern age lol)

My follow up on the latest of the big lego dispute where my conclusion is still... everyone looks sketchy and made very poor decisions, perhaps even worse than we knew when I wrote my original article about all their poor decisions.

Bridgit Mendler has surprise-released new EP, ‘Once Again…’

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4L... I don’t have much of a response other than ts pmo and what a waste of strong & Allen-white. This is Aaron Sorkin jacking himself off thinking he’s saying something profound about society and social media.

I can't speak to what this particular prof does, but when a professor basically just reads their PowerPoint slides, it's less likely to be "phone addiction" or whatever, and more likely sheer boredom or "why am I even here."

I shit on the MCU every day of my life but Captain America the Winter Soldier aged like a fine wine actually

Lots has been written about the other trappings of authoritarianism: the gilding of surfaces, racist anti-immigration rhetoric, the demonization of queers and trans people, the brutality. But mass sexual repression hasn't gotten nearly enough attention, and too often it's echoed by the left.

Why is NCOSE launching a lottery

EFF advisor @reitman.bsky.social joined @taylorlorenz.bsky.social to explore the terrifying reality of financial censorship as explained in her new book, “Transaction Denied” from @beaconpress.bsky.social. youtu.be/tyqEYDisiZA

It’s June 1 which means it’s time to bust out my best tweet.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!

California’s age-bracketing regime is a recipe for censorship and a privacy disaster. AB 1856 was supposed to fix these flaws before the law goes into effect next year, but our core problem with the bill remains. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

we need a MAJOR cultural shift to stop thinking porn\erotica\sex in general are something to be ashamed of. I don't think most people actually care THAT much, but the people who control our media\govs do, and those people need to be removed. There is no satiating them.

Colossalcon Prime 2026 highlights

so policy-pilled this is freaking me out every time I see it (two margs in)

frieren & himmel, colossalcon prime 2026

Carr's attacks on ABC are an "extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial voices, which sends a clear warning to every broadcaster in America" & a plain First Amendment violation says ABC in its application to renew its licenses techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

IF ANYONE ON THIS APP WILL BE AT COLOSSALCON PRIME COME SEE ME SATURDAY. I can promise you: section 230 and ao3/otw glaze, criticism of the DMCA, shirtless Toji from JJK, nana x Hachi edits, and discussion of that one New Yorker article we were all mad about.

“Safety comes from empowering youth with digital literacy and privacy, not from heavy-handed and paternalistic restrictions that destroy online privacy and isolate them from supportive communities,” EFF’s Rindala Alajaji told @startribune.com. www.startribune.com/minnesota-a...

“The KIDS Act is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, claiming to protect young Virginians online when in reality this bill will put children’s social media health in the hands of the companies that are currently attempting to skirt existing state law through their platforms”

Just a reminder that for all the talk of how LLMs are creating new legal challenges, everything old is new again: law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Meanwhile, a friend just sent me this example of Tesla/Grok integration and the "conspiracy mode" AI "personality" going pretty Hitler-like on the user: www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/com...

Corporations have been using copyright law to quietly advance new legal restrictions on VPNs. If they're successful, the implications for free speech and anonymity online are huge.

Blog Post: How Often Do Consumers Balk at Doing Online Age Authentication? blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

ANOTHER UPDATE. The BSA is so unconstitutional but I’m also not really sold that it truly applies here. (If anyone knows counsel at Poshmark and could tell me differently, I’d love to know.) also not being able to disclose who verifies is ABSURD

I feel like I’m going insane 💀

the more I dig the worse it gets lol. also what regulations. WHAT REGULATIONS????????????