Christopher Terry
@christopherterry.bsky.social
University of Minnesota/HSJMC Associate Professor of Media Law. I teach folks about the 1st Amendment, @FCC, @FEC& @FTC policy for a living. Otherwise talking Brewer Baseball and Fishing.
And yes, the hostile opinions re: FCC policy failures are mine.
And yes, the hostile opinions re: FCC policy failures are mine.
The Ref is the best Christmas movie. Fight me.
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Ref is the best Christmas movie. Fight me.
The criticism of 60 Minutes by Miller and the like ignores the key point.
This administration is so awful, even media owned and controlled by people friendly to it still are actively reporting on its flagrant crimes.
That speaks volumes, and I dont think this point should be lost in the shuffle.
This administration is so awful, even media owned and controlled by people friendly to it still are actively reporting on its flagrant crimes.
That speaks volumes, and I dont think this point should be lost in the shuffle.
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The criticism of 60 Minutes by Miller and the like ignores the key point.
This administration is so awful, even media owned and controlled by people friendly to it still are actively reporting on its flagrant crimes.
That speaks volumes, and I dont think this point should be lost in the shuffle.
This administration is so awful, even media owned and controlled by people friendly to it still are actively reporting on its flagrant crimes.
That speaks volumes, and I dont think this point should be lost in the shuffle.
Can you imagine the pearl clutching if Biden or Obama had talked like Trump about censorship?
The fact that we have normalized the idea that it's "Just Trump being Trump" and not the president talking like this is not okay, and he should be getting called out on it publicly by...literally everyone.
The fact that we have normalized the idea that it's "Just Trump being Trump" and not the president talking like this is not okay, and he should be getting called out on it publicly by...literally everyone.
I don’t wanna sound partisan but I think it’s bad when the president keeps raging publicly about free speech and late night comedy he doesn’t like and threatening state censorship all the time, and also using language that is easily construed as calling for someone’s death
O come, all ye faithful.
The President is posting.
The President is posting.
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Can you imagine the pearl clutching if Biden or Obama had talked like Trump about censorship?
The fact that we have normalized the idea that it's "Just Trump being Trump" and not the president talking like this is not okay, and he should be getting called out on it publicly by...literally everyone.
The fact that we have normalized the idea that it's "Just Trump being Trump" and not the president talking like this is not okay, and he should be getting called out on it publicly by...literally everyone.
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Trying out different social platforms? Be sure to follow EFF so you see the latest digital rights updates wherever you go: www.eff.org/pages/where...
WHERE TO FIND EFF
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December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trying out different social platforms? Be sure to follow EFF so you see the latest digital rights updates wherever you go: www.eff.org/pages/where...
Google Not A Common Carrier, Think Tanks Tell Ohio Judges www.law360.com/appellate/ar...
Google Not A Common Carrier, Think Tanks Tell Ohio Judges - Law360
Right-leaning institutions are lining up behind Google before an Ohio appeals court to argue that the state is trying to "skirt the First Amendment" by fighting to have the internet titan classified a...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Google Not A Common Carrier, Think Tanks Tell Ohio Judges www.law360.com/appellate/ar...
Behold:
The mother of all right of publicity examples for explaining the concept in class.
www.law360.com/ip/articles/...
The mother of all right of publicity examples for explaining the concept in class.
www.law360.com/ip/articles/...
Estate Of 1970s Cannabis Pioneer Sues Publisher Over IP Use - Law360
The family of cannabis legalization activist and author Jack Herer is seeking to wrestle back control of his IP, filing a lawsuit in California state court which claims the patriarch's name, image and...
www.law360.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Behold:
The mother of all right of publicity examples for explaining the concept in class.
www.law360.com/ip/articles/...
The mother of all right of publicity examples for explaining the concept in class.
www.law360.com/ip/articles/...
I'd do it.
Is there a form to register for this service?
Is there a form to register for this service?
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'd do it.
Is there a form to register for this service?
Is there a form to register for this service?
Texas Phone App Age Law Blocked Days Before Taking Effect www.law360.com/cybersecurit...
Texas Phone App Age Law Blocked Days Before Taking Effect - Law360
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday overturned a state law that would age-gate app downloads and require app stores to display age ratings, holding that the law failed the narrow-tailoring standard under...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Texas Phone App Age Law Blocked Days Before Taking Effect www.law360.com/cybersecurit...
Yankees Defend 'Iconic' Logo Against Cannabis Apparel Seller www.law360.com/media/articl...
Yankees Defend 'Iconic' Logo Against Cannabis Apparel Seller - Law360
The New York Yankees are hoping to stifle a cannabis apparel seller's effort to secure a trademark registration for his products, telling the Federal Circuit that the application was correctly denied ...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yankees Defend 'Iconic' Logo Against Cannabis Apparel Seller www.law360.com/media/articl...
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University of Wisconsin–Madison privacy researcher Emilee Rader helped us understand how it works. buff.ly/zYO15Zo
theconversation.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
University of Wisconsin–Madison privacy researcher Emilee Rader helped us understand how it works. buff.ly/zYO15Zo
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Blog Post: District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties–Bogard v. TikTok
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs' Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties-Bogard v. TikTok - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This is a quirky lawsuit designed to subvert Section 230, the First Amendment, and traditional common law. I previously summarized the case: This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective...
blog.ericgoldman.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Blog Post: District Court Again Rejects Plaintiffs’ Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties–Bogard v. TikTok
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
FCC Commissioner Gomez on 60 Minutes Censorship: www.fcc.gov/document/gom...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
FCC Commissioner Gomez on 60 Minutes Censorship: www.fcc.gov/document/gom...
Get "it" here.
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Get "it" here.
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Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be…
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be…
Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be destroyed if the big evil government interfered in any way with the internet. As she says “there has never been a time when a consumer needed a federal bureaucrat to intervene…”
www.techdirt.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be…
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be…
I have a full set of Craftsman wrenches, and even taken collectively, they are still less than a tool than Brendan Carr.
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have a full set of Craftsman wrenches, and even taken collectively, they are still less than a tool than Brendan Carr.
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The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity.
facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
How an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration's assault on media
Six days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM and other outlets reported on local immigration raids.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity.
facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
Yes to both.
So, will CBS News killing a story for patently obvious political reasons the Sunday before Christmas still be a topic of discussion when media law & ethics class when we start up again in 3 weeks? Or will it have faded and been superseded by new and even worse horrors?
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yes to both.
Yep.
Bari Weiss epitomizes the right wing "free speech" grift. Step 1: Spend years convincing ppl that college kids are destroying free speech thru their protests. Step 2: Gain massive govt &/or marketplace power to block dissent against, or facts inconvenient to the most powerful ppl on earth.
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Yep.
OnlyFans Defeats "Chatter Scam" Claim--N.Z. v. Fenix blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
OnlyFans Defeats "Chatter Scam" Claim-N.Z. v. Fenix - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
The court summarizes the plaintiffs’ “chatter scam” contentions: Plaintiffs allege that Fenix Defendants, in cooperation with the Agency Defendants, operate a fraudulent scheme whereby Fenix Defendant...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
OnlyFans Defeats "Chatter Scam" Claim--N.Z. v. Fenix blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
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John Bellamy Foster published a special Monthly Review issue to commemorate and engage with Bob McChesney's legacy. My contribution focuses on Bob’s "unfinished project" of designing a new kind of local journalism based on public funding and democratic governance: monthlyreview.org/articles/rei...
December 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
John Bellamy Foster published a special Monthly Review issue to commemorate and engage with Bob McChesney's legacy. My contribution focuses on Bob’s "unfinished project" of designing a new kind of local journalism based on public funding and democratic governance: monthlyreview.org/articles/rei...
Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/m...
Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
Broadband Breakfast reports… Five more states have received federal approval on their final spending plans under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Idaho, Ma…
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December 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/m...
Proud to have joined the impressive list of scholars and practitioners who signed onto this amicus brief in Simon v. Ivey (Academic Freedom Case)
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December 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Proud to have joined the impressive list of scholars and practitioners who signed onto this amicus brief in Simon v. Ivey (Academic Freedom Case)
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cornell.app.box.com/s/73jpdps7yf...
Executive Order to Remove Marijuana from Schedule I, but Concerns about Broadcast Advertising Continue
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President Trump Issues Executive Order to Remove Marijuana from Schedule I – Concerns about Broadcast Advertising Remain
Yesterday, we saw President Trump issue an Executive Order instructing various government agencies to take steps to move marijuana from Schedule I (an
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December 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Executive Order to Remove Marijuana from Schedule I, but Concerns about Broadcast Advertising Continue
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continuing my rant against this stupid TikTok deal, it requires “retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation,” which means nothing because our regulators don't function and you can't trust anybody in this chain
TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
continuing my rant against this stupid TikTok deal, it requires “retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation,” which means nothing because our regulators don't function and you can't trust anybody in this chain
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someone could do the funniest thing rn
As both the House & Senate look to repeal Section 230, I'm curious who they think should be held liable for the comments they've left open on the Epstein photo dump...? Them? Dropbox?
Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?
Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
someone could do the funniest thing rn