Ari Cohn
@aricohn.com
First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Lead Counsel for Tech Policy @thefireorg.bsky.social
Past: Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
Lead Counsel for Tech Policy @thefireorg.bsky.social
Past: Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
Todd Rokita is laughably incompetent, so I hesitate to give this too much air, but they are trying to nationalize Indiana law, and outlaw VPNs.
We simply cannot permit a bunch of hoosiers to wreck the Internet.
We simply cannot permit a bunch of hoosiers to wreck the Internet.
1. Indiana passes law requiring website with more than 1/3 harmful-to-minors sexual content to verify that users are adults.
2. Pornhub parent Aylo responds by blocking Indiana users.
3. Indiana now sues because Hooisers may use VPNs to evade the geoblock, so ...
events.in.gov/event/protec...
2. Pornhub parent Aylo responds by blocking Indiana users.
3. Indiana now sues because Hooisers may use VPNs to evade the geoblock, so ...
events.in.gov/event/protec...
Protecting children from porn: Attorney General Todd Rokita files lawsuit against websites allegedly violating age verification law
events.in.gov
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Todd Rokita is laughably incompetent, so I hesitate to give this too much air, but they are trying to nationalize Indiana law, and outlaw VPNs.
We simply cannot permit a bunch of hoosiers to wreck the Internet.
We simply cannot permit a bunch of hoosiers to wreck the Internet.
We all know how much Trump saying he'll pay something is worth...
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We all know how much Trump saying he'll pay something is worth...
But he IS worth paying for!
I do have some beef with FIRE, though. They keep getting important Tennessee cases that would otherwise come to me, because they provide free services to people whose expression is threatened, and I generally can’t compete with free.
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
But he IS worth paying for!
Reposted by Ari Cohn
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Shareholders should remember that dollars aren't the only value to consider.
They must also ask themselves if they want to contribute to a media organization that has repeatedly indicated it will give the Trump administration editorial input and control.
They must also ask themselves if they want to contribute to a media organization that has repeatedly indicated it will give the Trump administration editorial input and control.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
December 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Shareholders should remember that dollars aren't the only value to consider.
They must also ask themselves if they want to contribute to a media organization that has repeatedly indicated it will give the Trump administration editorial input and control.
They must also ask themselves if they want to contribute to a media organization that has repeatedly indicated it will give the Trump administration editorial input and control.
Prepare yourself for the gaudiest McDonald's you could possibly imagine
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Prepare yourself for the gaudiest McDonald's you could possibly imagine
Reposted by Ari Cohn
"[R]epeatedly naming the same group of defendants in new cases until a case is assigned to a judge the plaintiff believes to be hospitable to joinder constitutes an abuse of process."
Judge Blakey orders Marc Jacobs (represented by GBC) to show cause as to why the case should not be dismissed for abuse of process, following a series of amend-down-to-one maneuvers:
![MINUTE entry before the Honorable John Robert Blakey: Plaintiff filed a
supplemental brief [16], which indicates that, prior to initiating this case, Plaintiff named
all of the defendants identified in this case in three prior cases. In each of those cases,
Plaintiff voluntarily amended its complaint to drop all but one defendant once the case
was assigned to a particular judge. Such conduct suggests that Plaintiff lacks a good faith
factual and legal basis to join the defendants in a single proceeding. And repeatedly
naming the same group of defendants in new cases until a case is assigned to a judge the
plaintiff believes to be hospitable to joinder constitutes an abuse of process. As a result,
the Court issues an order to show cause on or before 12/15/2025, why this case should not
be dismissed for an abuse of process. Mailed notice. (evw, )](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hvwhptk4oerwsuzau66ikwfy/bafkreihvek5xfrwxrau5ccx7k3zqyb2z6mtmsozwyqeokvunym4dpsbgl4@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"[R]epeatedly naming the same group of defendants in new cases until a case is assigned to a judge the plaintiff believes to be hospitable to joinder constitutes an abuse of process."
Is this about Pete Hegseth?
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Is this about Pete Hegseth?
You're already paying too much for groceries thanks to Trump, and now you're going to pay for the privilege of paying too much.
White House to announce $12 billion farmer bailout package
White House to announce $12 billion farmer bailout package
Farmers are expected to start receiving the funds in February at the earliest, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans.
dlvr.it
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You're already paying too much for groceries thanks to Trump, and now you're going to pay for the privilege of paying too much.
It's time to start thinking about New Year's resolutions, and if I want anything for 2026, it's to finally put together my drag Pink Floyd cover band, Gilmour Girls (inspiration credit to Lez Zeppelin, who are fucking badass).
@smbrnsn.bsky.social start picking out your wigs and spaghetti straps.
@smbrnsn.bsky.social start picking out your wigs and spaghetti straps.
November 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's time to start thinking about New Year's resolutions, and if I want anything for 2026, it's to finally put together my drag Pink Floyd cover band, Gilmour Girls (inspiration credit to Lez Zeppelin, who are fucking badass).
@smbrnsn.bsky.social start picking out your wigs and spaghetti straps.
@smbrnsn.bsky.social start picking out your wigs and spaghetti straps.
Hi @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social:
No matter how annoying you try to make it (here by not recognizing 1password passkeys when adding accounts to Android devices), I am not going to use your stupid password manager.
Shame on you for undermining security to push out competitors.
Don't be evil.
No matter how annoying you try to make it (here by not recognizing 1password passkeys when adding accounts to Android devices), I am not going to use your stupid password manager.
Shame on you for undermining security to push out competitors.
Don't be evil.
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hi @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social:
No matter how annoying you try to make it (here by not recognizing 1password passkeys when adding accounts to Android devices), I am not going to use your stupid password manager.
Shame on you for undermining security to push out competitors.
Don't be evil.
No matter how annoying you try to make it (here by not recognizing 1password passkeys when adding accounts to Android devices), I am not going to use your stupid password manager.
Shame on you for undermining security to push out competitors.
Don't be evil.
Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.
My new ELAC speakers are taking an agonizing amount of time (a whole week) to get here, and my brain keeps rearranging the room like I'm planning a nursery for a child and it's making me feel just a little bit crazy.
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My new ELAC speakers are taking an agonizing amount of time (a whole week) to get here, and my brain keeps rearranging the room like I'm planning a nursery for a child and it's making me feel just a little bit crazy.
You can tell it's AI-generated because Kennedy's hands are holding silverware instead of sexting Olivia Nuzzi
Disappointed but not surprised.
Secretary RF Kennedy shares a Thanksgiving photo of Trump & Musk that's clearly AI-generated... 🫠🫠 Not a great look.
Secretary RF Kennedy shares a Thanksgiving photo of Trump & Musk that's clearly AI-generated... 🫠🫠 Not a great look.
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
You can tell it's AI-generated because Kennedy's hands are holding silverware instead of sexting Olivia Nuzzi
The staging and effects for Delicate Sound of Thunder were so good for their time
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The staging and effects for Delicate Sound of Thunder were so good for their time
Of all the things I've ever posted in my life, this might actually be the least likely to make an employer upset at me.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Of all the things I've ever posted in my life, this might actually be the least likely to make an employer upset at me.
If you have not seen anyone claim (wrongly IMO) that the ACLU has abandoned principled free speech work, you are living under a rock.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you have not seen anyone claim (wrongly IMO) that the ACLU has abandoned principled free speech work, you are living under a rock.
Free speech doesn't mean nobody can criticize your speech.
Hope this clears things up.
Hope this clears things up.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Free speech doesn't mean nobody can criticize your speech.
Hope this clears things up.
Hope this clears things up.
::responding to posts explaining what I believe::
"You aren't saying what you really believe because you believe what I think you believe"
What can ya do.
"You aren't saying what you really believe because you believe what I think you believe"
What can ya do.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
::responding to posts explaining what I believe::
"You aren't saying what you really believe because you believe what I think you believe"
What can ya do.
"You aren't saying what you really believe because you believe what I think you believe"
What can ya do.
Here: You're a Trump enabler
X: You're a seditious, subversive Teump-hater who should be deported
The very worst parts of Old Twitter truly deserved each other
X: You're a seditious, subversive Teump-hater who should be deported
The very worst parts of Old Twitter truly deserved each other
Had to unsubscribe from the otherwise-useful Trump enabler blocklist from Skywitches because they added @aricohn.com for some dumb reason.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Here: You're a Trump enabler
X: You're a seditious, subversive Teump-hater who should be deported
The very worst parts of Old Twitter truly deserved each other
X: You're a seditious, subversive Teump-hater who should be deported
The very worst parts of Old Twitter truly deserved each other
Reposted by Ari Cohn
Only the days that end in "day"
Is this Be Mad At Ari day?
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Only the days that end in "day"
Reposted by Ari Cohn
@aricohn.com Hi Ari, I've willfully and ignorantly interpreted your organization's work and have no experience or training in the legal field. Please debate me using only talking points I've created out of whole clothe.
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
@aricohn.com Hi Ari, I've willfully and ignorantly interpreted your organization's work and have no experience or training in the legal field. Please debate me using only talking points I've created out of whole clothe.
The number of people angry at me On Here who cannot, when asked, even explain *why* they are angry at me beyond "someone said to be" shouldn't be surprising, and yet somehow still is.
I feel like if you're gonna be mad at someone, the minimum requirement is knowing why.
I feel like if you're gonna be mad at someone, the minimum requirement is knowing why.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The number of people angry at me On Here who cannot, when asked, even explain *why* they are angry at me beyond "someone said to be" shouldn't be surprising, and yet somehow still is.
I feel like if you're gonna be mad at someone, the minimum requirement is knowing why.
I feel like if you're gonna be mad at someone, the minimum requirement is knowing why.