David Greene

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tremendously talented at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

It’s me holding my just-arrived , personalized copy of Tom Tomorrow’s Our Long National Nightmare

Nice to come home to this @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

And here's more! www.leighday.co.uk/news/press-r...

and originally said it here: bsky.app/profile/davi...

I said this

Saudi dissident awarded $4.1 million by UK court for hacking, assault 'by Saudi Arabia' A Saudi human rights activist who accuses Saudi Arabia of targeting him with spyware and directing his assault on the streets of London was awarded just over 3 million pounds ($4.1 million) in damages...

Huge news out of the UK 🇬🇧

www.reuters.com/world/uk/sau...

The tone of the description of the murderous event is seemingly more of a problem than the murderous event itself.

This is what happens when you have government-by-meme-and-shitpost

Promotional image of "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance" by Cindy Cohn.

In "Privacy's Defender," @eff.org Director Cindy Cohn chronicles her career protecting our right to digital privacy through 3 key legal battles, weaving her story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state.

Out March 10th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

That's not what doxxing means.

This Administration seemingly sees some value in the privacy of governmental officials--even their names and faces are secret!!-while showing no regard at all for the real and actual privacy rights of its people (the non-governmental ones).

Unsealing court records is a powerful tool of democracy. It's especially important in our current times. & it's a right that every person has-though the press often act as surrogates for the public at large. So thank you to CIR and The Intercept and the Boston Globe and the NYT for stepping up here.

Documents prove the Trump administration arrested students for criticizing Israel Newly unsealed court records illustrate how the US government specifically targeted students for pro-Palestine speech.

NEW: Mother Jones and other outlets fought to unseal documents that show that the Trump administration targeted students for Pro-Palestinian speech. We won.

Apropos of the TikTok news last week, I have a piece coming out abt how the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban-or-sale law belongs in the First Amendment anticanon. It's not just wrong, but so wrong we should hold it up as an exceptional symbol of wrongness.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

or me & @evacide.bsky.social 9/22/25 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"if the concern had been that TikTok could be a conduit for Chinese government propaganda—a concern the Supreme Court declined to even consider—people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for U.S. government propaganda"

And if you find out anything Sam, please let me know

Has any member of this administration explained how they define "peaceful protests"? Has any journalist asked them? Is any physical gathering acceptable? Or only courteous social media exchanges or oh-so-civil cocktail party conversation with those you disagree with but intellectually respect?

I’m a free expression advocate, so I am not advocating regulation. But there should really be a strong social norm against describing iCE as “untrained” or otherwise implying that training will help anything or that they have not been trained specifically to terrorize.

Dubs, I want to see you all out in the streets

OK fine. Let him have every single penguin in Greenland. The whole Arctic even.

Now hear me out: would be pretty cool if they and others had their own global tournament and called it the Nobel World Cup

But we (Congress) banned it because we (Congress) care about US users data privacy ...

The Privacy Act bars federal agencies from creating a database of "how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment" 5 USC 552a(e)(7)

I am actually disappointed with Albania.

But it does seem like the episode of The Other Ones where the NYT is accompanying Cary on a night out in the city so he just invites everyone in his contact list and it's not a good turnout.

And it's not over. It's not just TikTok. The law authorizes the President to designate other foreign-adversary-controlled applications as threats to national security and subject to being banned. www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c... And who is a "foreign adversary" is quite fluid these days.

Excerpt from NYT article explaining that the new owners of TikTok will decide which posts to leave up and which to take down

Have lots of told-you-sos about the TikTok sale to Trump friends being consummated www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t... And now these friends get to decide what what posts to take down which surely will be nothing because they think all content moderation is evil.

So not only is the FCC's latest action wrongheaded and part of its broader attempt to control TV content, it makes for really bad TV.

(the amount of time NBC believed was necessary under the law) with a few of the more high profile candidates (Arnold, Arianna Huffington, Cruz Bustamante, Tom McClintock, Mary Carey, Gary Coleman) invited to talk to Jay. It was tediously awful. No luck finding any video of it.

the ruling was 3 years after the interview aired. And NBC operated under the assumption that the rule applied. That led to the very worst Tonight Show ever aired: an entire episode in which the whole audience was the 135 candidates on the recall ballot, each shown for at least 3.9 seconds ...

The FCC's attempt to apply the Equal Time Rule to late night talk TV would reverse the 2006 ruling that Jay Leno's 2003 interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, in which Arnold announced he would be a candidate in the CA governor recall election was a bona fide news program exempt from the rule, BUT--

I said this! And to those commenting "what ethics?" -- that was the very point of the statement.