Jess Miers 🦝

If TikTokers want less government interference, they should go ahead and switch to Rednote #ETTD

He did worse than ban it...

Trump's message to 'the young people of TikTok' and Gen Z: 'You owe me big' | Fortune Trump endorsed the idea of a TikTok ban all the way back in 2020.

Trump just told young people “you owe me” for not banning TikTok.

The President of the United States is literally bartering our First Amendment rights for political loyalty.

H/t @kerry95.bsky.social

fortune.com/2025/10/06/t...

I've been tracking the 1A related cases personally for the article I'm working on -- I don't think there are any 230-specific AI cases yet (or rather, I don't think any court has bought that argument yet). But I could be wrong.

This means SO MUCH to me as a junior scholar. Transitioning from corporate to academia has been a huge learning curve. Part of that adjustment is self-growth and a commitment to unwavering intellectual honesty. Thanks @davidsullivan.bsky.social !!

Association of American Law Schools

I'm speaking at AALS! January 7th, I'll be presenting my scholarship at the AI Legal Scholarship (Shark Tank) workshop. After, I'll join an excellent panel on IP pedagogy where I'll be speaking about using AI in the classroom. Hope to see you there!

More here: www.aals.org

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet.

WTF?

I called my representatives yesterday. If you're in Ohio, have you called yours?

The emails you receive from colleagues when you announce that @jonahperlin.bsky.social is coming to visit your law school! @jmiers230.bsky.social

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm so stoked!! @jonahperlin.bsky.social is the coolest. Welcome to Akron! 😎🌽

FASCINATING perspective.

What keeps me up at night are major companies weaponizing the public's general misunderstanding of AI to extend their reach into areas having nothing to do with AI where no such monopoly would or should be granted. Reuters is basically going after research atp.

I never want to hear from Google again about how committed they are to access to information or the open web.

I left because they are committed to neither. And now we are seeing the direct repercussions of their cowardice.

Another thing.

Don't be angry at small companies like Bluesky.

Where were Google and Meta during these AV fights? They're the ones with the resources to fight these laws. Yet they were absent during FSC v. Paxton. Instead of fighting, they rolled over to pre-comply. They sold us all out.

I told a legislator even if the rationale to keeping children from predators AV does not prevent that. What it does do is

-Prevents them from choosing who to talk to(especially in a emergency
-stops journalists from easily talking to whistleblowers
-denies them the skills to learn to communicate

I have one -- this is about the principle, not about accessing my DM's.

Seriously, if a company with a skeleton crew running it feels the need to build out a system that will only be used for one or two states to comply with their laws, the problem is the law, not the compliance.

Folks ragging on Blueksy for this move need to redirect that anger at the Ohio Legislature. This isn't a bluesky problem.

Get angry. Melt the phones. Call AG Yost's office.

If you're outside Ohio, call your reps. It's coming for you next.

carrier pigeon

Soooo which one of you 1A lawyers want to help me sue the state of Ohio? Not sure if I'm kidding yet.

This is SUCH a bullshit thing. Every jurisdiction trying to implement this should be ashamed of themselves.

We are watching in real-time the shrinking of the U.S. Internet.

HMU on Signal. That's pretty much the only place to reach me these days besides my University email (in my bio).

2nd this, and it's why DMs are off for me on most apps. If you want to DM me, my email is in my bio and we can setup additional channels (signal, etc) if needed from there.

Friends, don't message me here on Bluesky. I won't see it because I'm not doing this.

If Thomson Reuters’ view were correct, then every lawyer who relies on Westlaw to draft a brief, and every professor who uses it to prepare scholarship, would be an infringer.

Perhaps, then, we should stop using Westlaw altogether.

To be clear, the ROSS legal experts used Westlaw in the same way lawyers and law professors use it every day to consult cases and headnotes as part of legal research that informs their own original writing.

Thomson Reuters’ expansive infringement theory threatens to wipe out this industry precisely when the public is already anxious about AI displacing human expertise.

That process—known as fine-tuning—is a deliberate, human-driven teaching method, not at issue in the “bulk ingestion” cases against other AI companies.

The distinction is crucial as fine-tuning has fueled an emerging industry of human trainers who specialize in knowledge transfer.

Special thanks to Jeff Miles of Carlton Fields for representing us.

This case is fundamentally different from the headline AI copyright suits. ROSS did not engage in indiscriminate data scraping. Instead, it hired third-party legal experts to hand-craft training memos for its AI research service.

Yesterday, I filed an amicus brief with @brianlfrye.bsky.social and Matt Blaszczyk in support of ROSS Intelligence. Thank you to my Research Assistants Matthew Bedell and Kerry Smith (@kerry95.bsky.social) for all of their research support for this project. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....