Berin Szóka

"toward authoritarianism"? Dude. We're already there.

"toward authoritarianism"? Dude. We're already there.

By the way, in just 8 months, already half of Project2025 has been implemented.
www.project2025.observer/en

A note to Europeans:

Telling an American in 2025 that your dream is to move to the USA is like telling a German in 1933 that your dream is to move to Germany.

I will assume you're either a fascist, or an idiot.

Great. So I guess he'll just stop now, right? 😂

Dems, this isn't that hard. Trump is (1) incompetent and (2) only about enriching himself and his cronies. Anything coming out of his mouth is an attempt to distract from (1) and (2). Repeat as needed.

First Amendment experts agree: Brendan Carr is unconstitutionally weaponizing the FCC to suppress speech he doesn't like

of COURSE Trump will keep doing fascism

"So, we're balancing the equities here. On the one side, 300,000 people unlawfully deported to face torture and death before we read the statute that says they should be allowed to stay. On the other side, Trump gets what he wants. Seems a clear case. Kill them." You can see why they didn't explain

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Seems like the first public response to Trump's "Compact" other than UT's Board of Regents Chair shouting how "honored" he was to be on the list.

This is the correct answer, FWIW.

I'm a shoo-in!

But see 31 U.S.C. § 5114(b)

But see 31 U.S.C. § 5114(b)

are the olds ok?

An EU age limit for social media? Get the lawyers in The Commission has rapidly warmed up to a bloc-wide age of “digital majority.”

The European Commission chief made waves in recent weeks when she came out in favor of a EU minimum age for using social media — twice.

But Ursula von der Leyen has so far overlooked a simple fact: It's up to national governments, not the EU, to set age restrictions for alcohol and tobacco.

Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.

Rep. Jordan "treated Google’s resistance as proof of censorship, and his own success in getting YouTube to capitulate on a fact-checking policy as a victory for free speech. He isn’t fighting against censorship, he’s redefining it in service to his political objectives," writes @noupside.bsky.social

"I didn't see it"
—the excuse of nearly all Germans after WWII 🫣

Finally, a major media outlet will be headed by a true free speech warrior who got her start trying to get her professors fired

This was the real price of getting the FCC to approve the merger—yet another example of the FCC's mafioso shakedown of American media. Don Carrleone must be delighted.

I summarize a letter @techfreedom.org released, joined by 70+ leading First Amendment scholars and litigators, explaining the unconstitutionality of Carr's threats
bsky.app/profile/tech...

Brendan Carr is running the FCC like Don Carrleone, using "mafioso" tactics (says Ted Cruz) to silence criticism. His threats ("We can do this the easy way or the hard way”) are un-American. They're straight out of 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴 (Cruz) or 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, as I explain:
thehill.com/opinion/civi...

“Every counterrevolution, like every revolution, begins by being afraid of its own people.”
—Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963) 🇩🇪

Counterrevolutions always do this: “The most dangerous enemies of liberty are not the foreign armies but those within who conspire against the Republic.”
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1793 🇫🇷

The Federalist will no doubt claim Google censored them in 2020. In fact, the site refused either to moderate “dangerous or derogatory content" in user comments, as required to run Google ads on articles with comments or to move the comments to pages without ads. See www.techdirt.com/2020/08/12/w...

Techfreedom argues the Supreme Court needs to reinstate Slaughter "For generations, lawmakers relied on the reasonable assumption that Humphrey’s Executor permitted them to establish independent agencies. To now declare that the case never carried that weight would look like a trick—a 'gotcha.'"

4/ Kimmel's remarks weren't news distortion under the FCC's existing standards. Chairman Carr's statements have and will chill critical free speech.

3/ "The Supreme Court has been clear: government has no ‘power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content,’ and even false speech is protected by the First Amendment."

2/ "Carr himself once said the FCC has no mandate to police speech in the name of the ‘public interest’—yet that’s exactly what he’s now doing."

1/ The FCC has no authority to police content for bias or balance.

We—and more than seventy other organizations and scholars—warned FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...