Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

An amazing story by Steve Levy in WIRED on how tech CEOs became Trump sycophants. And I'm quoted in the lede! www.wired.com/story/silico...

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

Blog Post: When Does Content Moderation Trigger Direct Copyright Infringement?–LoopNet v. CREXi (Catch-up Post) blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."

Dutch late night TV has its take

The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/

Censorship's slippery slope: "they come for those who celebrate murder, then they come for anyone who questions the hagiography of the victim, then they go after anyone who quotes the victim’s own words, then they silence anyone who objects to the repression" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Judge Merryday has no fucks left to give for Trump's defamation complaint against the NYT: "As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint isn't a public forum for vituperation & invective—not a protected platform to rage against an adversary" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Another 🤖😵 case storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My view: if you sue to enforce a settlement agreement & the court twice agrees with you but both times awards only $1 of nominal damages, you should question everything about your litigation strategy approaches #trademark storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

The president of the United States believes he has the right and the authority to use the firepower of the federal government to crush people who say things about him that he does not like. It's as simple as that.

Blog Post: 512(f) Claim Sent to Trial (Which Didn’t Happen)–Leszczynski v. Kitchen Cube #Copyright blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Court overturns a Washington doctor's medical license suspension issued in response to blog posts saying things like "Ivermectin is effective in preventing or treating a COVID-19 infection," because "fallacious statements receive First Amendment protection" www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

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They are literally canceling culture

For Constitution Day, Santa Clara Law had a great discussion about the "Rule of Law" Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page... With @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nickserafin.bsky.social

Carr's views as of October 2024:

This is extortion and censorship. Brendan Carr is turning into a mob boss: “the easy way or the hard way,” really? What about the American way? The constitutional way? Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.

This is an extremely basic point, but one that bears repeating: in a law-governed society, the state cannot simply murder people it has identified as potential criminals. It does not matter if those alleged criminals are foreigners. If you illegally kill people, you have committed murder.

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

The lawsuit is a statement of contempt for truth, the American public, the judicial process, & everything that deserves our respect in the American tradition. To assess its legal defects (eg complaints about Fred Trump—a man who cannot be defamed) ignores its purpose: to suppress criticism of Trump.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going to go after hate speech, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech,

Prof. @ericgoldman.bsky.social's poster of what he did this summer drive.google.com/file/d/1-rAW...

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/t... by @riana.bsky.social

Not my first Facebook settlement payment, and almost certainly not my last 🤑 www.flickr.com/photos/81901...

GLENN: They still have their 1st Amendment right, though. They're still out there protesting TRUMP: Well, I'm not so sure

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

Donald Trump: “smart people don’t like me”

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

i found these past several days to be a low point. the killing was horrible, & in its wake we see state censorship - against educators, civil society, Democrats - actively proposed, building on the admin's ongoing repression.

Blog Post: Another TOS Formation Fails–Carruth v. Big Little Feelings blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Another court (CA Ct. App.) is angry about Generative AI-hallucinated citations in legal filings 🤖😵 www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/doc...

Just finished taking down a copyright troll clpblog.citizen.org/prepared-foo...

NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Blog Post: 512(f) Doesn’t Support Preliminary Injunction–BViral v. TheSoul #Copyright blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Every time you see a story like this about the FTC, think about how its Chair promised Trump he’d use his authority to fight the “trans agenda.” Think about what they’ll do with reproductive health information. EVERY TIME.

Uh oh, the 9th Circuit is messing with vicarious copyright infringement again. This opinion indicates that a defendant can be vicariously liable if an independent contractor uses infringing software to create deliverables cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...