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The president holding this much power over one of the major communications platforms in this country is very good; very free speechy. Congratulations to everyone involved.

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I wrote about the surreal experience of teaching the First Amendment right now on a green card, teaching lofty doctrine while the government is rounding up people like me for things they say www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Trump administration "is trying to argue that deporting people for expressing views the administration dislikes 'is not about free speech.' But as I work out what to say in the classroom this week, I know that isn’t true."

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I wrote about the surreal experience of teaching the First Amendment right now on a green card, teaching lofty doctrine while the government is rounding up people like me for things they say www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Re-reading Abrams v. United States for the gazillionth time to prep for class tomorrow and I had overlooked this before, or forgotten it: perhaps the most famous free speech opinion ever, the birth of the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor was... written about non-citizens.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

one of the defining features of this moment seems to be people in power not being able to use basic communications applications

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why user-flagging is not a reliable signal for content moderation

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

kind of the whole point of free speech protections is the right to create a ruckus

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The administration wants the names and nationalities of students involved in protests. Wonder what for. As one attorney says in the story, this is a witch hunt. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Story after story in here about the chilling effects on non-citizens everywhere in recent weeks. The feeling that saying the wrong thing, being at the wrong event, can cost you the life you're building. Grateful to these plaintiffs and lawyers for not just buckling, as so many far more secure have.

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I'm sorry, I can't keep up. Are Universities supposed to be considering these things in admissions or not? www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Law is no longer law anymore in the sense that lawmakers intend or want it to be enforced as written; it's just posturing and bargaining chips. Not corrosive to the idea of a legal system at all.

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AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

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What the hell is going on with social media and the First Amendment? And the TikTok ban? And the courts? And... well... the constitutional order? This week on Reimagining the Internet, the brilliant Evelyn Douek (@evelyndouek.bsky.social) helps us understand at least some of that really well.

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"The petition says the couple has 'long been doxxed and smeared on anonymously run, far-right websites due to their support for Palestinian rights.'" The recurring role of doxing and online targeting in highlighting individuals that are later rounded up is extremely chilling

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I wrote about how risk-averse intermediaries limit valuable speech under the shadow of the broad & ambiguous material support for terrorism statute This paper is about social media platforms but could be abt other important intermediaries like, say, universities knightcolumbia.org/content/the-...

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American discourse about war and international affairs is impoverished and distorted by a censorship regime that's largely invisible. Thanks to @evelyndouek.bsky.social for casting some light on it. knightcolumbia.org/content/the-...

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Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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There's a lot of work to do. We're hiring another Legal Fellow to start ASAP. Please send the best people our way. @knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Holy moly Columbia's new "Anti-Doxing and Online Harassment Policy" is broad and ambiguous. One might even say chilling. No doubt all uncertainty will be cleared up by what I'm sure will be a very transparent enforcement process.

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Hey, just checking. Is there anything in the First Amendment cases about whether people are allowed to express "Anti-American" views as defined by the government? Has this ever come up?

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Last year, dozens of universities adopted "institutional neutrality" statements on the principle that they did not want to chill faculty or student speech. Institutional silence in the face of this is chilling faculty and student speech far more than any statement ever could.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

This Green Card holder is very excited to be teaching First Amendment in three weeks, and getting to tell the students all about this country's robust free speech tradition in a totally not at all chilled way!

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

It’s usually bad news if scholarship on free speech becomes timely, so I am pleased/dismayed that I have a timely new paper, forthcoming in U Chicago Law Review, about one of the Trump admin’s most powerful tactics of censorship: jawboning 🧵https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5162523

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

a hilarious and unexpected byproduct of appearing on last week tonight for 5 seconds. i guess i have to go into tv now to raise that score?

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Just filed: Our challenge to USDA's website purge. Glad to be working with @earthjustice.bsky.social @nrdc.org on this important case. knightcolumbia.org/cases/northe...

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We (@knightcolumbia) are launching a new research initiative on "Federal Funding and the First Amendment"--a topic that has suddenly become hugely significant. The call for proposals is here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...

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Posted with no comment needed I hope: knightcolumbia.org/blog/title-v...

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I wonder if this settlement is more or less than the amount that Meta spent (successfully!) supporting a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court confirming the First Amendment protects their right to remove posts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Professors @evelyndouek.bsky.social ( @stanfordlaw.bsky.social ) & @genevievelakier.bsky.social ( @uchicagolaw.bsky.social ) recently posted their article “Lochner.com?” to SSRN: https://buff.ly/3EcMUME #WomeninAcademia #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #HighlightWomen

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Great piece by @genevievelakier.bsky.social on one of the very big, but less appreciated, cracks that the TikTok decision threatens to make in the First Amendment: complete insensitivity to the way regulation of property rights can be used to undermine free speech lpeproject.org/blog/the-tik...

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Check out "The Politics and Perverse Effects of the Fight Against Online Medical Misinformation," by Professor Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social of Stanford Law @stanfordlaw.bsky.social in The Yale Law Journal! Read more here: https://buff.ly/3WtLLqt #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

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Not to bang a tired drum BUT the fact that the divestiture law has made TikTok so desperate to suck up to Trump in order to stay in business is WHY THESE KINDS OF LAWS SHOULD TRIGGER VERY SIGNIFICANT FIRST AMENDMENT SCRUTINY even if they directly target only property relations, not speech per se

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

i mean, to be fair, the thing about Trump is he really is known as a man of his word

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