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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is Meta saying to the AGs "We'll pay you $5 billion dollars if you pressure our chief competitors to adopt these same measures." It's purely a big monetary incentive to the states to pursue their cases against YouTube, Snap, and TikTok, and any new competitor that might emerge.

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Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte @ramiroau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is a "framework" of indirect regulation / censorship, informal regulation, dynamic / bargaining regulation, that---ultimately---respond to the heavy and powerful hand of the State, in its many forms.

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Having slept on it, I am far more troubled by this settlement. The government should not be able to use its power to bully a defendant into silencing lawful third party speech. That's what the govt did to bookstores in Bantam Books. The Court held that it violated publishers' 1st Amendment rights.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday morning, I wrote about how #SCOTUS keeps *choosing* to inject itself into politics. Then, the Court did it again last night—clearing the way for Alabama to re-draw its maps *this* cycle, even though it allowed Alabama to use old, unlawful maps in 2022: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I recently heard someone say that the WSJ will fight state pressure more than, say, CBS ever did because Murdoch knows the WSJ has to be seen as a credible information source by businesses. So much to unpack in that. But… whaddya know, here’s @wsj.com fighting and winning.

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Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte @ramiroau.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

With friends, on imagining futures for the internet

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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yeah, but it's rare that "engagement" is available in one form only. To that extent, we need deliberation (hidden or open) about which forms are available, and how they compare or contrast, including the collateral effects of each. Which is what these posts are calling for-not sitting in silence.

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Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte @ramiroau.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Realmente impresionante lo de @lacriticadd.bsky.social y el especial de Habermas

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José Luis Martí @jlmarti.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

La nueva y fascinante "La crítica del derecho" ha compilado una serie impresionante de obituarios de Habermas: @rgargarella.bsky.social, Sunstein, Benhabib, García Jaramillo y sus discípulos Cristina Lafont, Rainer Forst y Klaus Günther. Gracias por incluir la mía! lacritica.ar

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Reupping my paper on "The Nonpartisan Case for Court Expansion." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you don’t want to be identified while enforcing the law pick another fucking job

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Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte @ramiroau.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How can American Courts accept masked federal officers? What is the rationale --- if any?

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Alicia Ely Yamin @aliciay.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Escribí esta columna antes de que lo ejecutaran a Alex Pretti:

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.

How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s 120 million euro fine against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be spun as a decision against “free speech.” It’s not. (1/7) #digitalservicesact #dsa #dsa ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 03/12/2025

How are digital and algorithmic systems reshaping migration and asylum governance in Europe? We have launched a new symposium on "Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees", in collaboration with @hertiecfr.bsky.social ✨ Follow the symposium here: verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of 'misdiagnosing' its limits
Stefania Di Stefano
*International Law Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; "Postdoctoral researcher, LISE (Cnam/CNRS), Paris, France

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International human rights law (IHRL) has emerged as a dominant discursive framework for articulating and addressing issues raised by digital platforms.
Despite its potential to offer a global language to articulate and address the questions raised by digital platforms, the THRL project' has its detractors, who argue that this normative framework is inadequate to address the unique challenges that these new actors and technologies pose. Taking content moderation as a framework of analysis, this article critically engages with the criticisms aimed at IHRL in this sphere and questions whether these critiques are diagnosing an inadequacy of IHRL in content moderation. The article argues that the limits of IHRL that have been identified originate from and reflect a traditional approach to international law, and offers an alternative diagnosis: it argues that these 'limits' are in fact symptomatic of instances of change in international law.

ARTICLE HISTORY Received 17 November 2024; Accepted 31 July 2025

KEYWORDS International human rights law; content moderation; legal change; digital platforms; business and human rights

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

or maybe there's not much difference between the coercion and significant encouragement analyses? knightcolumbia.org/blog/in-jawb...

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In Jawboning Cases, There’s No Getting Away from Contextual Analysis

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

When people first hear about "jawboning" -- meaning government pressure to suppress speech through threats and other extra-legal measures, like what the FCC is doing now -- they always want to talk about "coercion" by the govt. I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I wrote about this for @knightcolumbia.org pre-Murthy here knightcolumbia.org/blog/six-thi... And for CELE in English and Spanish here observatoriolegislativocele.com/this-is-hard/ 8/

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/09/2025

-cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans. 🧵⬇️

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

They were private businesses adopting censorship in order to avoid government action; similar to here. The Comics Code came after Senate hearings and a moral panic over comic books corrupting youth, so while not technically government imposed, the parallels are there.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"In the era of Trump, censorship... very likely will target the economic infrastructure of speech rather than speech itself. But this does not make it any less a threat to the democratic values that the First Amendment is supposed to protect." A good day to revisit @genevievelakier.bsky.social!

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The TikTok Ban and the Limits of the First Amendment

The Supreme Court's unanimous affirmation of the TikTok Ban reveals a dangerous weakness in the First Amendment: its failure to protect against government repression that targets the economic…

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is an important perspective. What it misses is the law: You can’t have a stable economic system if the president routinely violates laws enacted by Congress. And Congress has made a choice to insulate the Fed from the President. That choice needs to be honored until it is changed.

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Opinion | Don’t Just Defend the Fed. Reinvent It.

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Then think about tech companies’ incentives — and especially AI companies’ incentives — to be pliant putty in the administration’s hands, if that’s what keeps the money flowing.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/07/2025

As someone who has run an actual non-ridiculous independent media operation for over two decades which has lost multiple sponsors due to our public "we're against fascism" stance... to hear that Weiss might get $200 million for basically justifying and whitewashing fascism... is... frustrating.

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ICON•S Argentina @icon-s-argentina.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Programa actualizado del V Encuentro Anual (¡y se van sumando lecturas!). ¡Entrar, leer, venir a Mar del Plata! iconsar.github.io/blog/v_encue...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Fanon Today. Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives next week in Berlin! program etc here: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...

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Eliav Lieblich @eliavl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Forget the illegality. You don't even need one semester of law school to realize that. Above all, the fact that in 2025 a defense minister of a sovereign state feels comfortable even saying such a thing out loud is a sign of a world utterly and completely broken.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Hot take: The real problem with the Florida Nazi student paper is originalism itself. If your constitutional methodology’s only available criticism of “ethnic cleansing is required, actually” is that they got 18th and 19th century history wrong, then your constitutional methodology is trash.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

On Monday, A Trump-appointed federal district judge denied AAUP's motion for a preliminary injunction in the Columbia funding cutoff case on (dubious) standing grounds. I'll have full analysis next week. For now, here's a reminder why the cutoff is plainly unlawful.

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Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Columbia Funding Cutoff Update and Reprise

I continue to be on break, so today I'm running another "classic" column from my "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series--my first foray int...

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Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión (CELE) @celeup.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

💬 ¿Qué lugar ocupan actualmente los derechos humanos en la gobernanza de plataformas digitales? En un nuevo paper publicado en #EWAF25, Agustina Del Campo, @nicolaszara.bsky.social y @ramiroau.bsky.social proponen caminos para recuperar la centralidad de los DDHH.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The Fascism-to-Black-Lives-Matter Spectrum: Which Point on it Will Maximize Your Subscriber Revenue?

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I generally think formalism is brittle, but it’s one way of doing law. Functionalism is more honest and allows us to argue about what’s actually at stake, but I recognize its drawbacks. This, though, is the worse of both worlds: fake forms hiding serious but contestable reasons. (8/8)

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