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Eric Goldman
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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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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 26m
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Ind. May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values”
Indiana may reject proposed degree programs at public institutions that don’t “cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values of American society.” Earlier this month, the Indiana Co...
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 15h
One of my unexpected joys as a blogger is when one of my blog post titles makes its way into serious academic or political discourse
Dear Professor Goldman, The Northwestern University Law Review is pleased to inform you that your blog post, Bonkers Opinion Repeals Section 230 in the Third Circuit Anderson v. TikTok, was cited in the third issue of Volume 120 of our journal and/or our online blog. You can find a digital version of the piece that cites your work at the following link: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol120/iss3/6/ .

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 19h
The burgeoning caselaw of the eggplant emoji 🍆

www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...

(I count 10 eggplant references in my emoji caselaw dataset)
1. An eggplant emoji is an icon sometimes used suggestively during texting conversations to represent a penis. C.K. v. W. Carroll Special School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120015, *14 (W.D. Tenn. June 2, 2025) (finding a Snapchat photo of the plaintiff with an eggplant emoji, a "symbol typically representing a penis," imposed over his lips, among other evidence, raised a jury question regarding harassment); Mothersbaugh v. State, 2022 Ind. App. LEXIS 1183, *18 (October 7, 2022) (noting text message including eggplant emoji as supporting "disturbing" and sexual nature of adult's communications with 14-year-old child).

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 20h
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 21h
Blog Post: Court Sanctions Plaintiff’s Lawyer for Unverified Claims That the Defendant Was Hiding–Guangzhou Youlan Technology v. Onbrill World #designpatents

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#StopTheSADScheme
Court Sanctions Plaintiff's Lawyer for Unverified Claims That the Defendant Was Hiding-Guangzhou Youlan Technology Co. Ltd. v. Onbrill World - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This is a SAD Scheme-adjacent design patent case against an Amazon merchant. I say “adjacent” because the plaintiff’s lawyer apparently cloned-and-revised SAD Scheme templates but made two major varia...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21h
The crazy thing is Republican members of Congress gave away their power and now they’re mad that they gave away their power. Like Trump didn’t do this to you, you did it to yourselves

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 22h
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’

For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coordinated inauthentic behavior—particularly foreign influence operations. They've insisted that any attempt to study and limit such operations is actually just "censorship" with various forms of cover, whether academic or operational.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d
Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month.
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Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers
In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital cu...
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for everything, DOGE. 🤡

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 2d
This paper from Prof. Amanda Reid explains how the proliferation of state-level Internet regulations creates "unnecessary complexity," "artificial barriers," & "implementation impossibilities" 📉

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 3d
Blog Post: Twitter’s TOS Formation Upheld–Taddeo-Waite v. X

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Twitter's TOS Formation Upheld-Taddeo-Waite v. X - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
TL;DR: a court upheld X’s TOS formation. This is not a new or surprising result, especially against a pro se plaintiff. * * * The plaintiff claims that Twitter failed to remove a post about his young ...
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 3d
Third Circuit Rejects a Meta Pixels Case–Cole v. Quest Diagnostics

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Third Circuit Rejects a Meta Pixels Case-Cole v. Quest Diagnostics - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This is a Meta Pixels case. In a short nonprecedential opinion, the Third Circuit rejects the plaintiffs’ claims. CIPA. The court says that Facebook isn’t impermissibly “eavesdropping” when a user’s c...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 4d
On January 30, @scuhtli.bsky.social is hosting an event: "Intellectual Property Law: How It Started, How It’s Going"

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Hope to see you there!
Intellectual Property Law: How It Started, How It’s Going
Santa Clara University School of Law Charney Hall Register Online Schedule Fifty years ago, Congress enacted the Copyright Act of 19...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 4d
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful video about the legacy of Bonnie Addario, a pioneering #lungcancer patient advocate youtu.be/-8Ap7rBt7HM?... Featuring several clips of my wife & the ROS1ders
Bonnie’s Legacy: The Impact and Empowerment of Bonnie J. Addario on the Lung Cancer Community
YouTube video by GO2 for Lung Cancer
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 4d
In my Internet Law course, as a "joke" about the perniciousness of online age authentication requirements, I told students to follow this slide in a serious voice. (I said students who didn't have their IDs would have to leave). Students freaked out until I admitted the joke after a few minutes
"Restricted Access. Please place your government ID on your desk in front of you for my inspection"

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d
Sounds about reich
Exclusive U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols now

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."

Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

Reposted by Mark A. Lemley

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 5d
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/20/t...
The TikTok ‘Ban’ Continues To Be One Of The Biggest Turds In Tech Policy History
After four years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, and a year after the app was to be banned from app stores via an act of Congress, TikTok re…
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 6d
Blog Post: Emoji Evidence Errors Don’t Undo a Murder Conviction–People v. Harmon

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[The emojis in question: 😂😈]
Emoji Evidence Errors Don't Undo a Murder Conviction-People v. Harmon - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Delarosa was convicted of murder. (Some background on the case). On appeal, he argues the court should have excluded a Facebook message that indicated he owned a gun a few weeks before the shooting. T...
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 6d
Are lawyers heeding warnings about hallucinated citations? There were at least 3 hallucinated citation cases JUST YESTERDAY 🤖😵

Cojom v. Roblen digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Schlichter v. Kennedy cases.justia.com/california/c...
Neal v. Frayer digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."

Reposted by Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet, Brian Jm Quinn

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7d
so how's that tiktok ban coming along......... www.theverge.com/policy/82216...
Even the lawmakers behind the TikTok ban have no idea what’s going on
TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago.
www.theverge.com

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 8d
"A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech & instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear & confusion"

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

One targeted faculty member speaks out:

www.chronicle.com/article/secr...
Unwritten Policies Sow Faculty Fears. Are They Enforceable?
A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech and instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear and confusion. Can they be enforced?
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 8d
Blog Post: Terminated User Loses Lawsuit Against Facebook–Hunt v. Meta

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Terminated User Loses Lawsuit Against Facebook-Hunt v. Meta - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
“Plaintiff alleges that Meta deleted and blocked his Instagram and Facebook posts causing him ‘lost [sic] of earning, loss of earning capacity, damage to reputation in the past and future and mental a...
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 8d
The systematic dismantling of guardrails at the Trump 2.0 USDOJ ensures widespread government abuses 📉

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Said one former DOJer: "I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. I think Americans should be enraged"
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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Reposted by Eric Goldman, Michael D. McDonald

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 9d
President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies
Trump Buys Another $82 Million of Corporate and Municipal Bonds
President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies.
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