David Greene
@davidgreene.bsky.social
Civil Liberties Dir. @EFF, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
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Start putting on Democratic radars: Section 702 expires in April 2026 and we NEED to drastically limit its ability to spy in the US or used for immigration. It uses collected digital communications intended for overseas national security purposes to watch the US side of those communications & more.
December 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Start putting on Democratic radars: Section 702 expires in April 2026 and we NEED to drastically limit its ability to spy in the US or used for immigration. It uses collected digital communications intended for overseas national security purposes to watch the US side of those communications & more.
The revisionist history of the Murthy ruling is intellectually dishonest. There is no way to read the opinion as anything other than a smackdown of the lower courts’ factual findings. There was no standing because these plaintiffs could not prove their posts were victims of government pressure.
I have the “In Covid’s Wake” PDF and this section floored me. Here is some of the surrounding content — and citations. The professors cited laundered Twitter Files claims in their discussion of the Murthy v Missouri case — they stuck the *outcome of the case* in a footnote while centering the lies.
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The revisionist history of the Murthy ruling is intellectually dishonest. There is no way to read the opinion as anything other than a smackdown of the lower courts’ factual findings. There was no standing because these plaintiffs could not prove their posts were victims of government pressure.
We forced the sale of a social media company to US ownership because we didn’t like the content the foreign owners were showing to US kids
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. n.pr/4b44MYk
U.S. bars Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
n.pr
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We forced the sale of a social media company to US ownership because we didn’t like the content the foreign owners were showing to US kids
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New Speaking Freely is here! In our latest interview, we chat with Sami Ben Gharbia, a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. Read more here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Speaking Freely: Sami Ben Gharbia
Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He founded Global Voices Advocacy, and is the co-founder and current publisher of the
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December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New Speaking Freely is here! In our latest interview, we chat with Sami Ben Gharbia, a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. Read more here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 (1971) [hung sideways]
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 (1971) [hung sideways]
One of the amazingly stupid things about this is the number of Congresspeople who voted for this because they believed that US kids were fed stupid time-wasting videos while Chinese kids were fed math problems
Fallout of the TikTok ban, ruling, and divestment:
- US now among the nations that ban media platforms to protect citizens from disfavored content
- First Amendment doctrine significantly weakened
- hugely popular media platform now under the direct control of Trump's ideological allies
- US now among the nations that ban media platforms to protect citizens from disfavored content
- First Amendment doctrine significantly weakened
- hugely popular media platform now under the direct control of Trump's ideological allies
Trump's deal to sell TikTok won't just enrich his billionaire pal Larry Ellison.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One of the amazingly stupid things about this is the number of Congresspeople who voted for this because they believed that US kids were fed stupid time-wasting videos while Chinese kids were fed math problems
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Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Learn how to fight back at our new Age Verification Resource Center: EFF.org/Age.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
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December 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Learn how to fight back at our new Age Verification Resource Center: EFF.org/Age.
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Fallout of the TikTok ban, ruling, and divestment:
- US now among the nations that ban media platforms to protect citizens from disfavored content
- First Amendment doctrine significantly weakened
- hugely popular media platform now under the direct control of Trump's ideological allies
- US now among the nations that ban media platforms to protect citizens from disfavored content
- First Amendment doctrine significantly weakened
- hugely popular media platform now under the direct control of Trump's ideological allies
Trump's deal to sell TikTok won't just enrich his billionaire pal Larry Ellison.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fallout of the TikTok ban, ruling, and divestment:
- US now among the nations that ban media platforms to protect citizens from disfavored content
- First Amendment doctrine significantly weakened
- hugely popular media platform now under the direct control of Trump's ideological allies
- US now among the nations that ban media platforms to protect citizens from disfavored content
- First Amendment doctrine significantly weakened
- hugely popular media platform now under the direct control of Trump's ideological allies
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We’ve received a few subpoenas this year. We’ve fought them off so far, but are now working on a system that encrypts your activities on CourtListener so that it is subpoena-proof.
seeing this getting shared a lot. is there anything new here? online companies do not have a duty to secure your data against LE requests. you have to find & reward the ones that will--or, better, who don't collect or retain the data in the first place therecord.media/google-searc...
Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searc...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We’ve received a few subpoenas this year. We’ve fought them off so far, but are now working on a system that encrypts your activities on CourtListener so that it is subpoena-proof.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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So it seems there's a push, again, by Congress to set an expiration date for Section 230 for the purposes of forcing reform-that is, accept reform in the next X months or lose it completely. And by "accept reform," Congress almost always, probably always, means THE BIG TECH PLATFORMS.
2 fallacies:
2 fallacies:
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So it seems there's a push, again, by Congress to set an expiration date for Section 230 for the purposes of forcing reform-that is, accept reform in the next X months or lose it completely. And by "accept reform," Congress almost always, probably always, means THE BIG TECH PLATFORMS.
2 fallacies:
2 fallacies:
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I call the general population version of this "the stupid neighbor problem": I don't personally need regulation of online speech-I can tell truth from disinformation; I use user control tools-but my stupid neighbor can't so please protect me from them.
🇦🇺: 67% support the new legal ban on all social media for minors under 16 BUT only 29% will actually enforce that for their own kids
“Bans for thee and thine, but not for me and mine!”🤦♂️
“Bans for thee and thine, but not for me and mine!”🤦♂️
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I call the general population version of this "the stupid neighbor problem": I don't personally need regulation of online speech-I can tell truth from disinformation; I use user control tools-but my stupid neighbor can't so please protect me from them.
I call the general population version of this "the stupid neighbor problem": I don't personally need regulation of online speech-I can tell truth from disinformation; I use user control tools-but my stupid neighbor can't so please protect me from them.
🇦🇺: 67% support the new legal ban on all social media for minors under 16 BUT only 29% will actually enforce that for their own kids
“Bans for thee and thine, but not for me and mine!”🤦♂️
“Bans for thee and thine, but not for me and mine!”🤦♂️
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I call the general population version of this "the stupid neighbor problem": I don't personally need regulation of online speech-I can tell truth from disinformation; I use user control tools-but my stupid neighbor can't so please protect me from them.
Recall she also voted for FOSTA and then was appalled that it harmed sex workers in exactly the way we all warned about.
Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do).
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Recall she also voted for FOSTA and then was appalled that it harmed sex workers in exactly the way we all warned about.
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Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do).
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do).
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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The push for the TikTok ban was bipartisan and stupid. But the Trump administration's goals for the ban have always been crystal clear: to place control of TikTok in the US in the hands of people chosen by and indebted to Trump.
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The push for the TikTok ban was bipartisan and stupid. But the Trump administration's goals for the ban have always been crystal clear: to place control of TikTok in the US in the hands of people chosen by and indebted to Trump.
You know, letter-writer-from-Rochester. I think ultimately I predicted this one pretty well (unfortunately)
I genuinely appreciate that this person put in the time and effort to send this feedback in the mail from Rochester, NY, rather than just trolling about it on social media, and I may keep it forever.
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
You know, letter-writer-from-Rochester. I think ultimately I predicted this one pretty well (unfortunately)
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Great thread! If you're looking for good reading here, I'd recommend our paper "A Policy Framework for Intermediaries and Content" www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/u...
December 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Great thread! If you're looking for good reading here, I'd recommend our paper "A Policy Framework for Intermediaries and Content" www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/u...
Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.
As I've said before, the TikTok ban fight was never just about TikTok. It was about under what conditions the government can avoid precision-demanding constitutional scrutiny when it seeks to control editorial policies and speech. SCOTUS said a potentially pretextual other goal was OK. Our big loss.
December 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.
So it seems there's a push, again, by Congress to set an expiration date for Section 230 for the purposes of forcing reform-that is, accept reform in the next X months or lose it completely. And by "accept reform," Congress almost always, probably always, means THE BIG TECH PLATFORMS.
2 fallacies:
2 fallacies:
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So it seems there's a push, again, by Congress to set an expiration date for Section 230 for the purposes of forcing reform-that is, accept reform in the next X months or lose it completely. And by "accept reform," Congress almost always, probably always, means THE BIG TECH PLATFORMS.
2 fallacies:
2 fallacies:
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EFF is
🥊 Fighting surveillance
🛡️ Protecting encryption
⛔️ Stopping bad laws
But we can't do it without you. Donate by Dec 31 and help us unlock challenge grants! eff.org/yec
🥊 Fighting surveillance
🛡️ Protecting encryption
⛔️ Stopping bad laws
But we can't do it without you. Donate by Dec 31 and help us unlock challenge grants! eff.org/yec
Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Donate in 2025 and you’ll help EFF receive bonus grants. Support digital privacy and free speech!
supporters.eff.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
EFF is
🥊 Fighting surveillance
🛡️ Protecting encryption
⛔️ Stopping bad laws
But we can't do it without you. Donate by Dec 31 and help us unlock challenge grants! eff.org/yec
🥊 Fighting surveillance
🛡️ Protecting encryption
⛔️ Stopping bad laws
But we can't do it without you. Donate by Dec 31 and help us unlock challenge grants! eff.org/yec
They will get Trump Medals, amirite?
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They will get Trump Medals, amirite?
The plus side to this awfulness is that it will be much easier to take this whole thing down once we are out of this era
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame. The plaques include bombastic language, from “Sleepy Joe” Biden references to painting Republican icon Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors in his newly installed Presidential Walk of Fame
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The plus side to this awfulness is that it will be much easier to take this whole thing down once we are out of this era
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@UNICEF.org's statement on age restrictions on social media highlights a key point that supporters of these restrictions ignore — social media bans hurt the most vulnerable and marginalized youth, cutting them off from sources of connection, expression, and learning. www.unicef.org/press-relea...
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@UNICEF.org's statement on age restrictions on social media highlights a key point that supporters of these restrictions ignore — social media bans hurt the most vulnerable and marginalized youth, cutting them off from sources of connection, expression, and learning. www.unicef.org/press-relea...