Ari Cohn
@aricohn.com
First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Lead Counsel for Tech Policy @thefireorg.bsky.social
Past: Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
Lead Counsel for Tech Policy @thefireorg.bsky.social
Past: Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
Imagine thinking you're the good guy.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Imagine thinking you're the good guy.
1/ Blaming platforms for Charlie Kirk's murder because algorithms showed users content hating on him is a cop-out oversimplification.
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
You can’t eliminate real-world violence by suing over online speech
With so much of our national conversation taking place online, there’s an almost reflexive tendency to search for online causes — and online solutions — when tragedy strikes in the physical world.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
1/ Blaming platforms for Charlie Kirk's murder because algorithms showed users content hating on him is a cop-out oversimplification.
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
What a very strange thing to say.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What a very strange thing to say.
Interesting indeed.
Interesting you're silent on places of learning bullying students on the left of politics. Interesting you're silent on DEI education being silenced. Interesting you're silent for a 1000+1 things Trump is doing against free speech because its people you don't like that he's attacking.
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Interesting indeed.
It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic."
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic."
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
The irony of following "extremists can't recognize their own extremist-ness" with "it should literally be illegal to be mean to anyone" is almost too much to bear.
A trait shared among extremists of any ideology is the inability to recognize one’s extremes. America and our free speech absolutism is a potent example.
Willfully malicious indignity — the context of this thread — should not be legal, let alone defended as a human right.
Willfully malicious indignity — the context of this thread — should not be legal, let alone defended as a human right.
Oh no, you still don't understand that defending the right to free speech is not the same as supporting the content of the speech. I'd work on that if I were you.
Until then, you're tiresome, boring, and pretty transparently a bad-faith actor.
Until then, you're tiresome, boring, and pretty transparently a bad-faith actor.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The irony of following "extremists can't recognize their own extremist-ness" with "it should literally be illegal to be mean to anyone" is almost too much to bear.
It's just so gross that Alejandra Caraballo would use a kid's death at all --but especially so dishonestly -- to win a social media argument.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's just so gross that Alejandra Caraballo would use a kid's death at all --but especially so dishonestly -- to win a social media argument.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
"If you don't think that government has the power to punish speech I think ought to be punished you're nor just not part of the queer community, you're not even a person" is ... not a good look.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"If you don't think that government has the power to punish speech I think ought to be punished you're nor just not part of the queer community, you're not even a person" is ... not a good look.
Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
Hell yes.
Were DOJ's demands to tech companies like Apple and Facebook accompanied by threats? EFF is suing to find out www.eff.org/press/releas...
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hell yes.
Dave Portnoy is Zuckerberg's Minecraft avatar that escaped into the real world.
All the same lack of self-awareness and socialization, just in an oafish, block-shaped package.
All the same lack of self-awareness and socialization, just in an oafish, block-shaped package.
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Dave Portnoy is Zuckerberg's Minecraft avatar that escaped into the real world.
All the same lack of self-awareness and socialization, just in an oafish, block-shaped package.
All the same lack of self-awareness and socialization, just in an oafish, block-shaped package.
Bonesaw meets Bonespur at the Conference of Thin-Skinned Cowards
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Bonesaw meets Bonespur at the Conference of Thin-Skinned Cowards
Protecting LGBTQ speech, you say?
www.thefire.org/cases/texas-...
www.thefire.org/news/john-ca...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ari Cohn, notorious hater of LGBTQ people
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Ari Cohn, notorious hater of LGBTQ people
The SCOTUS SNAP symtay is bad, but it's probably a political gift to Dems.
Before, the Right could (feebly) pin it on Ds, as with the shutdown, grumbling to their base about courts forcing them to fund SNAP.
But given the court's makeup, the optics now irrefutably lay it all at the Right's feet.
Before, the Right could (feebly) pin it on Ds, as with the shutdown, grumbling to their base about courts forcing them to fund SNAP.
But given the court's makeup, the optics now irrefutably lay it all at the Right's feet.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The SCOTUS SNAP symtay is bad, but it's probably a political gift to Dems.
Before, the Right could (feebly) pin it on Ds, as with the shutdown, grumbling to their base about courts forcing them to fund SNAP.
But given the court's makeup, the optics now irrefutably lay it all at the Right's feet.
Before, the Right could (feebly) pin it on Ds, as with the shutdown, grumbling to their base about courts forcing them to fund SNAP.
But given the court's makeup, the optics now irrefutably lay it all at the Right's feet.
Reposted by Ari Cohn
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
Hell no
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hell no
Uh, we've literally gone to bat for countless students protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza.
Immense money? Do you know how nonprofits work? I could easily be making 3-4x as much, at a minimum, in private practice.
Immense money? Do you know how nonprofits work? I could easily be making 3-4x as much, at a minimum, in private practice.
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Uh, we've literally gone to bat for countless students protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza.
Immense money? Do you know how nonprofits work? I could easily be making 3-4x as much, at a minimum, in private practice.
Immense money? Do you know how nonprofits work? I could easily be making 3-4x as much, at a minimum, in private practice.
Linear time is a cruel mistress
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Linear time is a cruel mistress
Reposted by Ari Cohn
Um, what?
"If you don't agree with everything the majority wrote in a decision written after your brief was filed, maybe you shouldn't have filed a brief" is an absolutely bizarre argument.
"If you don't agree with everything the majority wrote in a decision written after your brief was filed, maybe you shouldn't have filed a brief" is an absolutely bizarre argument.
If you don't stand by what the majority actually said it seems like kind of a screw up to have filed an amicus that helped the majority write that decision
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Um, what?
"If you don't agree with everything the majority wrote in a decision written after your brief was filed, maybe you shouldn't have filed a brief" is an absolutely bizarre argument.
"If you don't agree with everything the majority wrote in a decision written after your brief was filed, maybe you shouldn't have filed a brief" is an absolutely bizarre argument.
Absolutely bonkers stuff over here.
Like..what?
Like..what?
You hate trans people and want them erased from the planet Ari. Your actions prove this point over and over and over again.
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Absolutely bonkers stuff over here.
Like..what?
Like..what?