More hope scrolling today. … I’m launching a new tech center at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social ! So many new opportunities for students and faculty, including fellowships, endowed lectures, paper awards, policymaking advising. Grateful to our dean, Austen Parrish, and the affiliated faculty!

This was always where the troop deployments were going. Their plan was always to occupy cities with Democratic majorities to scare ppl away from voting. This is ONE TOOL they’re using to stay in power.

Kavanaugh Stops

Such an important piece by Kate Weisburd and Daniel Harawa www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

New research from @daniellecitron.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social examines growing concerns around content moderators — people tasked with keeping social media free of explicit content. Their upcoming paper adds to mounting warnings about this challenging job www.techpolicy.press/is-trust-saf...

So honored to be recognized by the @williamsinstitute.bsky.social and alongside @nbenas.bsky.social @margotpollans.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social. Their scholarship is outstanding!

Such a joy to collaborate with @daniellecitron.bsky.social on our third (!!!) piece together, this time bringing our perspectives to trust and safety. Danielle has been in the trenches since the beginning. I couldn’t have written this without her!

RFK Jr. has fired all members of the Preventive Services Task Force, which requires insurance companies to cover certain treatments. The Supreme Court ruled he could do so in June. Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Go @daniellecitron.bsky.social! 5 Questions for Danielle Citron. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:

Yeah, let’s run an experiment that re-traumatizes children to make an AI that won’t ever be able to detect trauma in children. If that’s not the AI industry’s motto, I don’t know what is?? Also, how does something like this even pass IRB?

The line from Skrmetti to this sham of a workshop” on gender affirming care is the demand for perfection (which doesn’t exist in science) for trans care studies while applying zero standards to anti-trans “studies”. They also literally weaponize a trans kid’s death to stoke anti-trans hate.

For the right wing judiciary, “[t]he only logical consistency that matters is that the trans person loses.” @joshablock.bsky.social is exactly right.

This new book on the theory and method of law and technology by the brilliant @rcalo.bsky.social is so important! Congrats Ryan!

New Article! I interviewed those involved in drafting ADPPA, the American Data Privacy & Protection Act, & reviewed primary sources. I tell the story of how law, legal processes, and influences on civil society skewed ADPPA in industry-friendly ways. scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The fight building and dismantling state capacity is a fight over democratic freedom and equality. My latest paper on the kind of state emerging from this moment - and a vision for freedom and governance that should shape an alternative progressive state to come papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

With the obvi caveat that class actions are not always practical, have been restricted, and will inevitable leave ppl out, everyone should do this immediately. Luckily, smart lawyers knew what was coming and were ready. This is how it’s done.

The Trump FTC will use consumer protection law to ban gender affirming care. Speakers at this event include Miriam Grossman, who argues that ppl say they’re trans bc it’s cool, and Michael Laidlaw, who’s only job seems to be to lie when testifying against trans people. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Yesterday's Skrmetti decision reminds me of @ariezra.bsky.social: "in fact-intensive constitutional cases, opportunistic judges manufacture factual uncertainty when there is none by reframing doctrines of constitutional scrutiny as demands for scientific infallibility." #SCOTUS #LawSky

There’s a lot to unpack w Skrmetti. The first is that this decision will kill people. The human impact matters. Another is that the result depends on manufactured uncertainty. I wrote about that in civil rights litig—and trans rights specifically—here. ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcont...

May Melissa Hortman rest in power, and she will … because her legacy will live on in Minnesota and hopefully become a guide for progressives elsewhere.

Framing authoritarian actions as ordinary politics is—say it with me—PART OF THE PROBLEM!

One doesn’t have to actually ban vaccines to make them functionally and constructively unavailable, inaccessible, and nonexistent.

As with Anita Bryant’s and anti-LGBTQ zealots’ use of the phrase, “parental rights” in this context is code for a deeply conservative political project @daniellecitron.bsky.social

Authoritarians are great gaslighters … and abusers. It’s DARVO on a national scale. @daniellecitron.bsky.social and I connect online abuse and the erosion of democracy in @uchilrev.bsky.social online. More collaborations coming!

Scoop about my work with the one and only @ariezra.bsky.social :)))

The incomparable @daniel-solove.bsky.social made a list exhaustive and essential list of great privacy books since the 1950s! If you’re interested in privacy, get your summer reading list from here!

There is no bipartisan support for protecting kids from tech platform exploitation. There is one party (Democrats) who want to do that, and then there’s these Republican dudes, who want to use the language of protecting kids to advance hetero-supremacy.

The current US administration’s assault on privacy is real & dangerous. Join us in making our voices heard by adding your name to our public letter. This is step 1. W/ a coalition, more action to come. Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign On: docs.google.com/forms/d/1cLo...

I think you’re confusing the elements of the crime of bribery with the more general concept of corruption. Or, you’re willfully shirking your responsibility, in which case, you’re part of the problem.

The only way to think about the current US admin’s efforts against equality, justice, and diversity is, collectively, Redemption, as in the multistage effort to entrench White Supremacy, from ending Reconstruction to reversing Civil Rights Era progress. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

It’s not abt fentanyl (tariffs) just like it was never abt antisemitism (withholding funds from uni’s) just like it was never abt protecting women (banning trans girls in sports/women’s bathrooms) just like it was never abt children (gay marriage) just like it was never abt merit (ending DEI).

Yes but tariffs are not a tool of econ policy to reduce the deficit at the expense of the economy. They are a fascist tool—in line with bullying universities and law firms and deporting protesters—to compel fealty from business by forcing companies to beg for exceptions. See the bigger picture!

This regime doesn’t care about anti-semitism. It allows white nationalists to define anti-semitism and then uses that def to justify an authoritarian crackdown on universities they don’t like. And when they’re done, when we see the charred landscape, guess who they (& others) will blame: the Jews.

They never expect to be out of power. That’s the point.

Endlessly grateful for @cybercivilrights.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social @maryannefranks.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social @jwalta.bsky.social Hany Farid @hollyccri.bsky.social and everyone who works with us!

This is so spot on. Democrats supporting Take It Down are missing the larger story here. Way to go, @thedextriarchy.bsky.social ! www.theverge.com/policy/62497...

How should policymakers rethink youth privacy? @uvalaw.bsky.social Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social and @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social Professor @ariezra.bsky.social provide a critique of the parental control model in their forthcoming article in the Virginia Law Review: https://buff.ly/41zwxlx

1/ Musk and crew have no legal authorization to access (a disclosure to them) Treasury Department tax return systems. Period. No routine use; no written request from law enforcement head for a specific record; no nothing. This is the kind of indiscriminate, unauthorized access that Sen. Goldwater

The top 100 legal scholars of 2024 is in and a woman made number 1–so happy to appear alongside @ariezra.bsky.social @klonick.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @lsolum.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social @richschragger.bsky.social @meganstevenson.bsky.social @uvalaw.bsky.social Whoos!

NEW PAPER: "Rethinking Youth Privacy" (soon in Virginia L Rev) @uvalaw.bsky.social w/ amazing coauthor @daniellecitron.bsky.social, identifies the pathologies of the "parental control model": parents have almost total control over kids' privacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Congrats @daniellecitron.bsky.social on being the top cited legal scholar in 2024! I’m #34! & congrats @margotkaminski.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @daniel-solove.bsky.social @aselbst.bsky.social @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social @vanloo.bsky.social !

The Electronic Privacy Information Center @epic.org rising to meet the moment, suing to protect privacy in this moment of authoritarian assault on our data. @alanindc.bsky.social epic.org/wp-content/u...

A new (perhaps controversial) paper that touches part of the current moment: How much deference, if any, should we give tech experts when making tech policy? The arguments for tech expertise are thin, and it leads policy astray ... as we're seeing now for realz. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=512...

Pie. Apple Pie.

Where to find all sorts of help in LA, from shelter to pet resources to clothes. www.fireaid.info

Notice the explanation. It’s bc of current “debates” abt “transgenderism”. Essentially, because conservatives challenge the right of trans, queer, and gay people to even exist, they can spew whatever hate they want. They *made* it a “debate” and Z/Suck dives right in to the trap they planned.

The plans to make Facebook/Insta even worse for queer folks goes even deeper, with an exception that allows ppl to use certain harassing and hateful speech against queer ppl *but no one else*

Meta has been waiting for an excuse to make its platform even worse for queer people. Now it gets to do it *and* do a favor for a man who can make any regulation/lawsuit challenging its bottom line just … disappear. www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...