Eric Goldman

@ericgoldman.bsky.social

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Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: [email protected]

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Eric Goldman is a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also co-directs the law school's High Tech Law Institute and co-supervises the law school's Privacy Law Certificate. .. more

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025:

Trump appointees: 92%
Other Republican appointees: 68%
Democratic appointees: 27%

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Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21h

“IT WAS MURDER”

Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)

👏👏

(📸 Erik Castro)

A sign has been made saying “IT WAS” and hundreds of people are standing in the form the word “MURDER”
There is an upside down distress US flag followed by the words, ICE OUT

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23h

He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them

And oil companies are like

Meh

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings

A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 2d

Guest Blog Post: AT&T Blocks T-Mobile’s Data Portability Efforts

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AT&T Blocks T-Mobile's Data Portability Efforts (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By guest blogger Kieran McCarthy If you have ever wondered why big incumbents keep running to the Northern District of Texas the moment someone builds a tool that makes switching easier, comparing pri...

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings 🚫👑

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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.

Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 3d

Blog Post: Copyright Takedown Notices Don’t Require Services to Find and Remove Other Identical Copies–Athos v. YouTube #DMCA

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Copyright Takedown Notices Don't Require Services to Find and Remove Other Identical Copies-Athos v. YouTube - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I previously summarized this case: Athos owns the copyrights to many classic Mexican films. Users regularly upload its film clips to YouTube. These uploads have irritated Athos since 2014. However, At...

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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 3d

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September

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Datta Center for High Tech Law (DCHTL) @dchtl.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of National #Bobblehead Day, here’s a fun throwback to our custom bobbleheads, including one featuring our very own Co-Director, Prof. Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman.bsky.social). If you haven’t yet, take a moment to enjoy the “Unauthorized Annotated Bobblehead” details.

Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 4d

Blog Post: DMCA 512(c) Safe Harbor Applies to Embedding–Harrington v. Pinterest #Copyright

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DMCA 512(c) Safe Harbor Applies to Embedding-Harrington v. Pinterest - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is a long-running class action copyright case (filed in 2020!) led by the photographer Blaine Harrington (now deceased). The plaintiffs complain about user-uploaded photos appearing in Pinterest’...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
Violence is always unacceptable. Even when passions run high.

Anyone engaged in violence—especially against law enforcement—should be fully prosecuted.

God bless the Capitol Police and the honorable men & women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping all of us safe.
11:47 AM · Jan 6, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan
Stop the violence. Support Capitol Police.
12:02 PM · Jan 6, 2021

Graham said, “Count me out. Enough is enough.”

Graham called Biden the “legitimate president of the United States,” and told colleagues definitively that “it is over” and the Biden-Harris administration would begin on January 20th.

Earlier Wednesday, supporters of Trump breached the U.S. Capitol, forcing a lockdown of the lawmakers and staff inside. Trump has claimed widespread voter fraud to explain away his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, though election officials have said there wasn’t any.

Graham said that “if you’re a conservative,” the idea that Vice President Mike Pence could reverse the results of the election, as President Donald Trump had urged him to do, was “the most offensive concept in the world.”

“There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president,” McConnell said. “The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things.”

Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 4d

Blog Post: 2025 Internet Law Year-in-Review 📉

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2025 Internet Law Year-in-Review - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2025 is the Trump 2.0 era, so you won’t find much upbeat news in this Internet Law year-in-review. 10. Are Websites Legally Equivalent to Exploding Coke Bottles? Traditionally, tort law distinguishes ...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5d

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

CNN put together a montage of Trump being vocally against regime change before he fell in love with it

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Nute Year, Nute You @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5d

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

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CNN @cnn.com · 5d

President Trump has expressed excitement over the prospect of US oil companies getting their hands on Venezuela’s vast oil resources. But industry sources tell CNN that American oil executives are unlikely to dive headfirst into Venezuela for multiple reasons. | Analysis https://cnn.it/3NuKuNT

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6d

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

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Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 6d

I feel for anyone having to teach Internet Law these days. It's a mess.

When any claim involving third-party content can be framed as impermissible "content shaping" excluded from 230's immunity....wtf is included??

(Thank you @ericgoldman.bsky.social)

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A Massive Roundup of Section 230 Decisions - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This post also owes its origins to my 2-week trip to China in June. Section 230 decisions started backing up while I was on the trip and never stopped accruing. In total, this post covers about 30 dec...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:

-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

Statement from Cato VP Clark Neily: Courts probably won't rule against the rendition. Yet Trump has chosen to bypass the constitutional provisions designed to cabin the president's powers in using force against other countries. And an indictment does not supply him with those powers.

Statement on Trump's Venezuela action by Cato Vice President for Legal Studies Clark Neily:
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As a legal matter, any challenge by Nicolas Maduro to his capture last night and subsequent rendition to the United States would run headlong into precedents involving the prosecution of Manuel Noriega in the 1990s. Courts have already upheld the unilateral seizure, prosecution, and conviction of a foreign leader under materially similar circumstances, and given longstanding judicial deference in foreign-affairs cases, judges are unlikely to distinguish that line of authority in Maduro's case.
That conclusion, however, should not obscure the deeper constitutional concern here, which is profound. The Constitution deliberately assigns to Congress—not the President—the power to decide when the United States will initiate hostilities against foreign sovereigns. That assignment includes the power to declare war and the related authority to issue letters of marque and reprisal to private entities, both of which reflect a constitutional judgment that decisions risking international conflict, retaliation, and escalation should not rest with a single executive actor.
When a President unilaterally deploys military force abroad to seize a foreign head of state—effectively collapsing war powers, foreign relations, and criminal law enforcement into a single executive decision—the constitutional safeguards designed to cabin the use of force against other countries are bypassed entirely. That concern is not cured by the existence of a valid indictment. An indictment may (or may not) explain why a President wishes to act, but it cannot supply the constitutional authority to do so through military force without meaningful congressional engagement, let alone authorization.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 8d

Law students explain why the accelerated timeline of Biglaw hiring hurts everyone assets.alm.com/aa/63/359759...

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 8d

An age-gate-the-Internet law proposed in New Hampshire includes a line, " A commercial entity shall not claim Section 230 immunity [...] as a defense in any civil action arising from a violation of this chapter"... which I'm pretty sure violates the Supremacy Clause?

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 8d

Blog Post: A Massive Roundup of Section 230 Decisions

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A Massive Roundup of Section 230 Decisions - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 9d

Whoops, there's a second more detailed opinion that the photographer also loses cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 9d

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Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 9d

You may recall a photographer's copyright lawsuit against a tattoo artist for depicting a photo in a tattoo. The jury ruled for the tattoo artist.

On appeal, the Ninth Circuit shuts the photographer down: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/me...

Prior coverage: blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

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