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Speaking Freely: Shin Yang Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an

"For me, free expression is about possibility, and possibility always contains both and even multiple ends, the beautiful ones and the brutal in equal measure” says writer and open source advocate Shin Yang in our latest Speaking Freely interview www.eff.org/pages/speak...

this administration scans authoritarian in everything it does, and the assault on the media -- and more precisely the public's right of access to accurate information & reporting -- is pretty much foundational. censorial in every respect.

(a protective order is an agreement among the parties and the court to keep information produced during discovery confidential, at least until it is used in a public court proceeding; typically court orders enforcing those agreements do not offend the First Amendment)

Judge McMahon's order was only to the MLA, one of the plaintiffs in this case, to remove them from their own YouTube channel. Judges do have a greater ability to control what discovery materials the parties make public. But that still should require a pre-existing protective order.

This eminently unconstitutional order will be overturned, either on appeal, or the judge on reconsideration. Still the damage -- the removal of truthful information pertaining to a matter of extreme public importance (and sourced from a court proceeding) being censored even temporarily-has been done

Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.

The gift that keeps on stabbing you in the heart over &over again.

Someone please ask every Congressian who voted for the TikTok ban if this (&everything else that has resulted) is what they intended.

And remember, the law allows it to happen to other companies too.

www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

"No quarter" is one those terms that I'd hear friends use to mean "no mercy" (colloquially) or "not giving in" and I seemed annoyingly pedantic when I corrected them, so I stopped.

But of course, none of these friends are the Sec of Defense who thinks "quarter" is some woke, wussy, girlie thing.

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A.B. 1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers for adults and young pe...

"A.B. 1043’s one-size-fits-all approach ... disregards the many ways in which we make and use digital tools. It assumes the internet and digital devices begin and end with the dominant technology companies and device makers, when we know that’s not the case."

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Come to My Book Launch Events April 7 & 9 My new book, Transaction Denied, is going to be in bookstores across the country April 7. Come celebrate the launch, pick up a book, hang out, and talk about digital rights with me at two SF Bay Ar…

I'm hosting two book launch events: one in Berkeley April 7 & San Francisco April 9.

Come hang out with me, grab a book, and we can talk about how much influence financial corporations should have over online speech. RSVP links here:

raineyreitman.com/2026/03/12/c...

Know what would be cool to have right now?

A fully functioning Institute of Peace

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

🚨 Wide ranging powers have been voted through to restrict Internet access 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

ht/ @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social @cartoonistsrights.org for the great work

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

This new report detailing threats to cartoonists around the world in 2023-25 is great in its comprehensiveness, emboldening by telling the stories of the bravery of the cartoonists, and disturbing in how widespread and serious the threats are. Read & share. www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/evenement...

‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet Automated online ID checking systems add new potential dangers to having a mismatching ID.

‘Age Verification’ will force trans people to out themselves to use the internet. After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples’ licenses, experts warn the discrimination is set to extend to online spaces.

Today!

ICYMI, @thecoalition.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a new First Amendment lawsuit earlier today challenging the Trump admin's denial of visas to tech researchers, tech workers, fact-checkers. Here's a post explaining why we're suing. mailchi.mp/knightcolumb...

It's Shuttlesworth Day! On March 9, 1964, civil rights icon Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth won two separate Supreme Court cases: Abernathy v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), in which Shuttlesworth was one of the defendants, and of the summarily decided Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, 376 U.S. 339 (1964).

Follow closely this welcome and really important new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's policy punishing social media misinformation and hate researchers with immigration consequences.

And you can continue the celebration tomorrow! March 10 marks the birthday of a different Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, 394 U.S. 147 (1969), which remains one of the Court’s most important prior restraint cases.

These are just three of the eight SCOTUS cases in which Shuttlesworth was a party.

Abernathy v Sullivan was the companion case to NYT v Sullivan and the cases were decided with a single opinion. Back in 2019, I wrote about why it is really really important to think about the Sullivan cases as civil rights cases and not just free press cases: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

It's Shuttlesworth Day! On March 9, 1964, civil rights icon Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth won two separate Supreme Court cases: Abernathy v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), in which Shuttlesworth was one of the defendants, and of the summarily decided Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, 376 U.S. 339 (1964).

With age verification, we talk more about privacy and surveillance concerns, and some of us don't remember what it's like to be a minor, but that quote summarizes the other side of the coin. Personally I'm concerned about how sheltering children will make bad childhoods even worse.

Wanna join the fight against the spread of mandated online age restrictions? We have a whole resource page here: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

Speaking Freely: Shin Yang Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an

Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She tells us all about it in our latest Speaking Freely interview, here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Congratulations to the capitulating law firms for being a useful foil to those standing firm in the DOJ’s very first footnote.

Consensus here is honored, and very much so.

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In Tech In honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian

This International Women’s Day, five women at EFF talk about the women who have inspired them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Indonesia to Ban YouTube, TikTok, Other Social Media Apps for Children Under 16 Indonesia is the latest country to block social media, saying the apps pose "increasingly real threats" to young people.

As promised, once again I emphasize that "children have the right to access information, to speak and to associate" and these age gating laws are intentionally designed to restrict their exercise of those rights. www.cnet.com/tech/service...