Eric Goldman

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

YouTube video by Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Democracy and Disagreement: Internet Regulation (The TAKE IT DOWN Act)

I continue to see a lot of confusion about what the Take It Down Act says and does, as well as its policy merits. I "debated" the law's removal provisions with Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media. Watch the video:

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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Panel discussion in Cato’s fancy auditorium

Hello DC! Currently at @cato.org Listening to @ericgoldman.bsky.social on Section 230, noting how difficult it is to be anonymous online these days.

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“Last month, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Revenue told The Star that the agency had processed 159 gender changes on IDs since a district court injunction was lifted in October. Officials say they expect around 1,800 people to have their identity documents revoked.“

If You Don't Keep Good Records, Don't Be Surprised if Your TOS Formation Fails in Court-White v. PayPal - Technology & Marketing Law Blog “Plaintiffs allege that Honey “misrepresents its ability to find the ‘best discount codes’ for consumers” and instead “prioritizes coupon codes from Honey’s partner merchants,” giving users “inferior ...

Blog Post: If You Don’t Keep Good Records, Don’t Be Surprised if Your TOS Formation Fails in Court–White v. PayPal

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After pointing at Democrats and saying they are "crazy," Trump says, "We’re lucky we have a country, with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we stopped it, just in the nick of time."
Just insanely destructive. Indefensible — but Republicans stood and clapped.

Here's what I know from prosecuting cases & from living through abuse: secrecy is the predator's best friend. It is not a neutral tool of professional discretion. Every time we treat transparency as the problem, we are choosing the institution over the victim.

And I refuse to make that choice. 13/x

Justice Department Sues University of California Over Antisemitism

AAUP said the litigation was filed “amid a broader pattern in which the federal government has increasingly weaponized antisemitism to pressure and reshape higher education institutions toward a far-right agenda”

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Section 230 Preempts Lawsuit Over Unwanted Gmail Spam-Dor v. Google - Technology & Marketing Law Blog The plaintiff, Francesse Senat Dor: asserts that Google’s spam filter failed to block abusive, spoofed, and spam emails from reaching her Gmail account. She says that reading these emails caused her e...

Blog Post: Section 230 Preempts Lawsuit Over Unwanted Gmail Spam–Dor v. Google

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The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts - Above the Law Ditto for Barrett and Gorsuch.

"You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts"

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BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

A SAD Scheme Plaintiff Unsuccessfully Plays an IP Privilege Card-Price v. Schedule A Defendants - Technology & Marketing Law Blog All SAD Scheme cases are, by definition, sad. This case achieves even greater depths: it’s Flori-dumb level SAD. * * * The plaintiff, Price, has a trademark registration in the phrase “White Privilege...

Blog Post: A SAD Scheme Plaintiff Unsuccessfully Plays an IP Privilege Card–Price v. Schedule A Defendants

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ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do

They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do

They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do.

Then they *lost* him.

www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

"A Government Tariff Refund Bait and Switch" www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go...

This x 10000:

And yet it’s even more dumb: Both hospital ships are in dry-dock in Alabama, so they won’t be arriving anytime soon.

This is a weird distraction from the Danes medically evacuating a sick US sailor from a US Navy nuclear sub yesterday 9 miles from Nuuk. What was a sub doing nine miles from Nuuk?

Brandywine Creek State Park

Brandywine Creek State Park, Wilmington, Delaware

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Flyover Utah (?) After a Snowstorm

One of the (few) perks of flying across the country during winter is catching views like this after a snowstorm

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Florida Hands Down Sociology Curriculum to State Colleges The sociology curriculum is likely just the state’s first foray into course development; the Florida Department of Education is already working on a similar framework for American history classes.

The Fla. Department of "Education" dictates that Florida state colleges must teach their Introduction to Sociology courses without teaching several essential principles of sociology 📉

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

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending."

One thing to understand is that jackasses like me graduated from law school basically believing that, while nothing like <all this> was realistic in our lifetimes, if it did happen, then our Supreme Court with all its flaws would respond roughly like this judge did, maybe 9-0.

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

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Trump Calls Justices Who Ruled Against Him ‘Fools and Lap Dogs’

Trump Calls Justices Who Ruled Against Him ‘Fools and Lap Dogs’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Bessent: I got a feeling the American people won't see the $175 billion in tariff revenue we collected