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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 40m

The 3d Circuit's terrible Anderson v. TikTok decision completely fucked up the 1A/230 Q, so anyone trying to figure out what to argue in their MTD is now thinking about whether *their* court would go along with Anderson or recognize that that decision was bonkers blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Bonkers Opinion Repeals Section 230 In the Third Circuit-Anderson v. TikTok - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This decision is bonkers. The majority implies that any effort to curate third-party content automatically converts the third-party content into first-party content so that it no longer qualifies for ...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2h

I will admit that I kind of lost track of this, but is there a clear reason why we haven't gotten a big challenge to section 230 yet along these lines? are they working their way through the lower courts?

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 2h

This is extremely uncontroversial and it’s time to consider guardrails and regulations on AI that can protect people without hamstringing an economic sector. It’s possible!

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I would keep an eye out for whatever OpenAI files in Raine v. OpenAI, the other, newer chatbot suicide case. An actual court ruling on the 230 issue’s been hotly anticipated by all us nerds, but delayed by the fact that almost all the lawsuits against AI companies so far, AIUI, have been (c).

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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404 Media @404media.co · 1h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 21h

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now):

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 17h

Google too! You sniveling cowards. www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 18h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 4d

Want my anti-ICE posters? I'm selling them at cost in my shop www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/icepr...

25-pack of Risographed Fuck ICE posters — Molly Crabapple

Express your feelings towards our American Gestapo with these striking posters, risographed by Molly Crabapple at her beloved Robert Blackburn Studios. These posters are NOT archival. They are printe...

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 18h

I am old enough to remember when this company used images of MLK, Gandhi, and Muhammad Ali in their ads, after having previously made one of the most famous ads in history by invoking "1984."

Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Apply now for the 2026–27 ISP Resident Fellowship at Yale Law School! We encourage projects on AI and the digital public sphere—free speech, content moderation, privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic governance. More info: law.yale.edu/isp/join-us#...

Fellowships

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the bill, SB 1034: www.palegis.us/legislation/...

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 20h

My May paper with @shelbygrossman.bsky.social on AI-generated CSAM recommended that state lawmakers update mandatory-reporter laws to cover "nudify" incidents in schools. Now, Pennsylvania lawmakers are working to do just that, spurred by an incident our paper discusses. www.witf.org/2025/10/07/l...

Lancaster Country Day AI incident moves lawmakers to push changes in mandatory reporting law | WITF

Three Lancaster County lawmakers are working on legislation that would require school administrators to report the discovery of any artificially g […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22h

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20h

Across nearly 100 submissions to our #StopCensoringAbortion survey, we saw systemic over-enforcement, convoluted policies, sudden account bans, and ignored appeals. On Friday, leaders from EFF, Plan C, M+A Hotline, and Women on Web will discuss what’s happening and the future of sharing info online.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 21h

Answer: Yes! (h/t Neel Guha) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Artificial Intelligence and Aggregate Litigation

The era of AI litigation has begun, and it is already clear that the class action will have a distinctive role to play. AI-powered tools are often valuable beca

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 22h

This is a very fun issue and it made me wonder: Has anybody written about potential FRCP 23 class cert commonality challenges in non-(c) cases involving AI harms?

Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social · 1d

What Money Stuff can’t afford is if a newsletter provider makes a mistake that ends up as a systemic, correlated, aggregated risk. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

AI Insurance Is Expensive

P(doom), STAAR Surgical projections, Bitcoin life insurance and YouTube self-help.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 22h

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

thanks to a friend I once had who was the child of Dutch immigrants, I taught myself to enjoy salty licorice, which is probably pretty low on the list of associations people make between the words "Dutch" and "pervert"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“Justice systems across the world are struggling to address harms from deepfakes that are increasingly used for financial scams, in elections, and to spread nonconsensual sexual imagery.”

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

First take out of arguments: Despite efforts by Sotomayor to put off a decision, it appeared the Supreme Court will subject Colorado’s conversion therapy ban to strict scrutiny under the First Amendment, with a majority likely to strike it down outright.

More to come at Law Dork:

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 2d

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 2d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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