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You can’t eliminate real-world violence by suing over online speech
With so much of our national conversation taking place online, there’s an almost reflexive tendency to search for online causes — and online solutions …
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Nov 27, 2025
California wants to coerce platforms into hosting less offensive speech with algorithmic liability law
First Amendment and Section 230 shocked to learn they no longer exist
Oct 11, 2025
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Ari Cohn
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Defamation Dipshittery of National Magnitude
John Ruiz continues to go big in the bad way
Apr 21, 2025
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Ari Cohn
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Defamation Dipshittery of National Magnitude
Apr 21, 2025
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Ari Cohn
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Montana Governor Somehow (Accidentally?) Manages to Make TikTok Ban Bill Even Dumber
Apr 26, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Republican AGs Decide that Coercive Jawboning is Good, Actually
Jul 11, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist
Jun 19, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Should the Stanford Law Students Who Heckled Judge Duncan Be Investigated by the Bar for Incivility?
Apr 18, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Desperate to Justify Unconstitutional Social Media Law, Utah Officials Blunder Through False Equivalencies
May 10, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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A.I. Panic is Causing First Amendment Hallucinations...in Humans
Cue Alanis Morissette
Jan 29, 2024
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Ari Cohn
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Republican AGs Decide that Coercive Jawboning is Good, Actually
"It's not censorship when WE do it!"
Jul 11, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist
Science concludes: anti-porn ideations impact brain's ability to understand Constitution
Jun 19, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Gonzalez v. Google & Taamneh v. Twitter: Not with a Bang...
Edited highlights of our analysis
Published on TechFreedom
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Jun 2, 2023
Desperate to Justify Unconstitutional Social Media Law, Utah Officials Blunder Through False Equivalencies
Surprise: Different Things Are Different!
May 10, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Montana Governor Somehow (Accidentally?) Manages to Make TikTok Ban Bill Even Dumber
Inadvertently banning all social media from the state would be a new one
Apr 26, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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Should the Stanford Law Students Who Heckled Judge Duncan Be Investigated by the Bar for Incivility?
Be careful what you wish for.
Apr 18, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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The Time is Now
This is Platforms & Polemics: Semi-coherent rambling about First Amendment law, tech policy, and terrible ideas.
Apr 11, 2023
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Ari Cohn
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