When Paul Weiss caved, you knew a bunch of their lawyers were going to leave. I'm honestly a bit surprised it's taken this long, even though I know it takes some time to get a new firm spun up and everything. RE:
Bluesky Social
Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social)
The holiday weekend legal news keeps coming. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/karen-dunn-paul-weiss-partners.html?smid=nytcore-ios-sha...
Service journalism. RE:
Bluesky Social
David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social)
I did some shoe-leather reporting on the story that has all of America buzzing. And what I found, will shock you. https://defector.com/is-jon-heyma...
He is not wrong. The first part of the story I was like "okay, yeah, a little weird, but nothing too crazy." And then... RE:
Bluesky Social
Mat Honan ✅ (@mathonan.com)
This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in.
Me writing up the stuff about Harvard. "Oh, I'm sure a lawsuit will be filed soon." Finish writing and look. Lawsuit filed. Finish edit and get ready to post. Look one last time. TRO already entered. Things move fast these days. RE:
Bluesky Social
Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
DHS Strips Harvard’s Foreign Student Program Just As Judge Blocks Separate Mass Student Expulsion Scheme DHS announced yesterday that Harvard c...
 https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreidfvknyu6svzeiea7gadekecfjuljwmeatwcvaigcegmmgflhoeme
Note that courts have already thrown out similar investigations by both Missouri and Texas as an obvious and blatant attack on [@mmfa.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social)
Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
 )'s First Amendment rights. RE:
Bluesky Social
kate conger (@kateconger.com)
The FTC is investigating Media Matters, questioning whether it colluded with advertisers for a boycott against X https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22...
Hmm. Working on a fun little side project. Came up with the perfect domain name for it. Go to [@namecheap.com](
Bluesky Social
Namecheap (@namecheap.com)
Powering Internet freedom through domains, hosting, security, and more — everything you need to make more online, for less
 ), it says it's available. Put it in the cart, go to checkout and I get this error saying someone else took it. I search again, still available. Click to buy... same error. 🤔 https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreidgrmisp25nddfwjcnepkjsfca3ioxdgtgvdmml6oinrr5jwihzh4
New Ctrl-Alt-Speech with Guest Host [@hankgreen.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social)
Long Time Internet Guy
 ): Moderation Without Representation This week we talk about the experience of being a content creator on a platform you don't control, and what that means for what content is (and is not) created. [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...](
Buzzsprout
Moderation Without Representation - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Hank Green, ...
 ) [Moderation Without Representat...](
Buzzsprout
Moderation Without Representation - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Hank Green, ...
 )
FWIW I wrote about [@issueonereform.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Issue One (@issueonereform.bsky.social)
Cross-partisan political reform group in Washington, uniting Republicans, Democrats, and independents to fix our broken system. We focus on money i...
 )'s totally "facts optional" attacks on Section 230 last year. It really appears that they simply *do not care* what kind of harm they will do. They just decided this is an issue they want to fight over. It's embarrassing [www.techdirt.com/2024/09/25/e...](
Techdirt
Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ignorant, Incorrect, Confused, And Dangerous Attack On Section 230 I’ve Ever Seen
In my time covering internet speech issues, I’ve seen some truly ridiculous arguments regarding Section 230. I even created my ever-handy “Hell...
 ) RE:
Bluesky Social
Mike Masnick (@masnick.com)
Justin and Tech Policy Press are great, but this article is a load of nonsense. There are a ton of very real, very legit problems with KOSA (again,...
 [Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ig...](
Techdirt
Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ignorant, Incorrect, Confused, And Dangerous Attack On Section 230 I’ve Ever Seen
In my time covering internet speech issues, I’ve seen some truly ridiculous arguments regarding Section 230. I even created my ever-handy “Hell...
 ) View quoted note →
Justin and Tech Policy Press are great, but this article is a load of nonsense. There are a ton of very real, very legit problems with KOSA (again, the Heritage Foundation out and out said they wanted it to silence LGTBQ voices). The spin in this article is just complete bullshit. RE:
Bluesky Social
Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social)
We are engaged in a fight over who governs in a democracy: the people, or the Big Tech companies, argue Issue One’s Alix Fraser, Michael Beckel, ...
She concludes by saying schools need to make sure they're teaching students "what it means to promote freedom and liberty" and apparently their way of doing that is banning students and silencing protected speech. RE:
Bluesky Social
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act...