Rebecca Tushnet

When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

Exact copies can be transformative, politician edition

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

@rtushnet.bsky.social, @markpmckenna.bsky.social, and I filed an amicus brief opposing THQ's argument that Mar Vista can't make a horror movie called "Alone in the Dark" about, well, people who are alone in the dark because it made a video game with that name ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0311469...

Copyright Kills Competition Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over

Stricter copyright laws might seem tough on big tech, but they just become new tools to enforce monopolies and bully artists. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Taboo Patents with Andrew Gilden & Sarah Rajec - Taboo Trades My guests today are Andrew Gilden, Southwestern Law School, and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School. They join me today to discuss their recent paper, Patenting the Taboo: Sex, Dru...

Looking for a listen that's about patents, but also pleasure and legality and changing social norms? @andrewgilden.bsky.social and I spoke to @kimkrawiec.bsky.social about "Patenting the Taboo: Sex, Drugs, and Abortion," on her excellent Taboo Trades podcast.
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Concentration camps.

Ms. Hart has become an A.I. evangelist. Through her author-coaching business, Plot Prose, she’s taught more than 1,600 people how to produce a novel with artificial intelligence, she said. She’s rolling out her proprietary A.I. writing program, which can generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month.

As always, the real money in a gold rush is selling shovels.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

I have been musing about the hypothesis that the ultimate consequence of SCOTUS's opinion in Trump v. U.S. will be the destruction of the rule of law in the U.S. This gift article helps to explain why, in part by emphasizing the evisceration of the Dept. of Justice.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion."

That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I was just thinking this same thing yesterday and it made me irrationally mad. Just say SUPER BOWL.

The trend of consumer protection cases using "ambiguity" to mean something different than it does in Lanham Act false advertising cases is not going to end well, I fear

conducting dueling internet searches converts attys into fact witnesses in TM case Vicious Brands, Inc. v. Face Co., No. 24-cv-04996-LJC, 2026 WL 276178 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 3, 2026) (magistrate) Plaintiff, aka Saints & Sinner...

Here's a practice pointer: if the attorneys conduct dueling internet searches in a TM case, they can become fact witnesses.

Trump administration won't let student deported to Honduras return President Donald Trump's administration on Friday called a judge's proposal that the government issue a student visa to a college student it deported to Honduras in violation of a court order "unfeasi...

New: Trump's administration tonight told a Boston judge that his proposal that it issue a student visa to a Babson College student it deported to Honduras in violation of a court order is "unfeasible" and said ICE declines to facilitate her return. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.

Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Building on @espiers.bsky.social's post, I am again respectfully requesting a Zohran version of the photo shoot Ed Koch did with the Muppets in 1983. You should know I'm a very persistent person & will keep making this demand until someone makes this happen

Very fair point!

Very much agreed.

After our lawsuit, the Trump administration is dropping its threat to withhold billions in education funding if New York doesn't abandon our DEI and anti-discrimination programs and policies.

I'll always fight for our students and our schools.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

WNBA players are mid union negotiations and I want to drop some facts for y’all.
NBA players make ~50% of league revenue.
WNBA players make ~9.3%.
These women aren’t asking for the same salary as their male counterparts, they are just asking for the same PERCENTAGE. Come on y’all.

White House says it won’t withhold funding from NH schools with DEI programs Lawsuits challenging New Hampshire laws that ban DEI initiatives and limit teaching about racism and discrimination remain unresolved.

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

Fair Use Week Congressional Briefing Hosted by ARL and Re:Create — Association of Research Libraries Join the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Re:Create Coalition for a congressional staff briefing in Washington, DC, during Fair Use Week. The briefing will highlight perspectives on AI and....

Join ARL & @recreatecoalition.bsky.social for a congressional staff briefing during #FairUseWeek, Wed Feb 25 in DC, on #AI & #FairUse!

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Let's go.