Platforms & Polemics

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 • 

Ari Cohn

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April 2025

Defamation Dipshittery of National Magnitude

John Ruiz continues to go big in the bad way

Apr 21 • 

Ari Cohn

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January 2024

A.I. Panic is Causing First Amendment Hallucinations...in Humans

Cue Alanis Morissette

Jan 29, 2024 • 

Ari Cohn

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July 2023

Republican AGs Decide that Coercive Jawboning is Good, Actually

"It's not censorship when WE do it!"

Jul 11, 2023 • 

Ari Cohn

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June 2023

Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist

Science concludes: anti-porn ideations impact brain's ability to understand Constitution

Jun 19, 2023 • 

Ari Cohn

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Gonzalez v. Google & Taamneh v. Twitter: Not with a Bang...

Edited highlights of our analysis

Published on TechFreedom • Jun 2, 2023

May 2023

Desperate to Justify Unconstitutional Social Media Law, Utah Officials Blunder Through False Equivalencies

Surprise: Different Things Are Different!

May 10, 2023 • 

Ari Cohn

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April 2023

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 • 

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 • 

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 • 

Ari Cohn