Megan Iorio
@meganiorio.bsky.social
Senior Counsel @EPIC.org focusing on platform governance & accountability
This is such brazen censorship. It’s all right there in the open, a quintessential jawboning case, the lawsuit writes itself.
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is such brazen censorship. It’s all right there in the open, a quintessential jawboning case, the lawsuit writes itself.
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We partnered with these amazing legal, privacy & tech accountability experts on an amicus brief for a case about how Meta’s design choices allegedly harmed kids. At Cybersecurity for Democracy, we conduct scientific research to show how these systems work & what accountability can look like. More 👇🏼
EPIC led a coalition of legal scholars including @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy, and Tech Justice Law Project to file a Ninth Circuit amicus brief arguing against Meta’s use of Section 230 to shield itself from lawsuits. 🧵 #Meta #SocialMedia #Section230
EPIC Leads Coalition of Tech Accountability Groups, Legal Scholars in Telling Ninth Circuit to Deny Meta Section 230 Protections for Alleged Addictive Design
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July 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We partnered with these amazing legal, privacy & tech accountability experts on an amicus brief for a case about how Meta’s design choices allegedly harmed kids. At Cybersecurity for Democracy, we conduct scientific research to show how these systems work & what accountability can look like. More 👇🏼
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Thanks to @epic.org for leading the way, to @comminsense.bsky.social and TJLP for this collaboration, and the below legal scholars, who signed on in support. What a team! cc: @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social & @meganiorio.bsky.social
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The 11 legal scholars are experts on Section 230, platform governance, & digital rights, including @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, @daniellecitron.bsky.social, @brettfrischmann.bsky.social, @FrankPasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, @gaiabernstein.bsky.social, & @ariezra.bsky.social. Thank you all!
July 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thanks to @epic.org for leading the way, to @comminsense.bsky.social and TJLP for this collaboration, and the below legal scholars, who signed on in support. What a team! cc: @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social & @meganiorio.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/mega...
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EPIC collaborated w/ @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy (@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) & Tech Justice Law Project on a brief telling the Ninth Circuit to deny Meta Section 230 protections for its allegedly addictive design. 11 legal scholars joined!
EPIC led a coalition of legal scholars including @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy, and Tech Justice Law Project to file a Ninth Circuit amicus brief arguing against Meta’s use of Section 230 to shield itself from lawsuits. 🧵 #Meta #SocialMedia #Section230
EPIC Leads Coalition of Tech Accountability Groups, Legal Scholars in Telling Ninth Circuit to Deny Meta Section 230 Protections for Alleged Addictive Design
epic.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
EPIC collaborated w/ @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy (@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) & Tech Justice Law Project on a brief telling the Ninth Circuit to deny Meta Section 230 protections for its allegedly addictive design. 11 legal scholars joined!
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SCOTUS's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton today properly leaves legislatures with room to provide kids with heightened protections online but does not go far enough in incentivizing legislatures to prescribe privacy-protective age assurance methods. epic.org/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Impose Age Verification Requirements on Porn Sites Subject Only to Limited Privacy Safeguards
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June 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
SCOTUS's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton today properly leaves legislatures with room to provide kids with heightened protections online but does not go far enough in incentivizing legislatures to prescribe privacy-protective age assurance methods. epic.org/supreme-cour...
The California Age-Appropriate Design Code case is back in the 9th Circuit. Did NetChoice remedy the flaws the Ninth Circuit ID'ed the first time around? Nope. But the district court granted a full injunction anyway—endorsing yet another bad legal theory that endangers long-established privacy laws
📄 EPIC submitted its fourth amicus brief in #NetChoice v. Bonta against tech industry group NetChoice’s attempt to overturn the #California Age-Appropriate Design Code: epic.org/epic-urges-n...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The California Age-Appropriate Design Code case is back in the 9th Circuit. Did NetChoice remedy the flaws the Ninth Circuit ID'ed the first time around? Nope. But the district court granted a full injunction anyway—endorsing yet another bad legal theory that endangers long-established privacy laws
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BIG NEWS! This afternoon, Governor Phil Scott signed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) into law! governor.vermont.gov/press-releas...
Action Taken by Governor Phil Scott on Legislation - June 12, 2025 | Office of Governor Phil Scott
governor.vermont.gov
June 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
BIG NEWS! This afternoon, Governor Phil Scott signed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) into law! governor.vermont.gov/press-releas...
Also super telling that the Searchlight guy thinks that angering a key Dem constituency is a good thing. My guy you sound like the absolute worst political strategist and all you are going to do is help Dems lose harder.
why would you say this out loud. why would you give us this lmao
June 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Also super telling that the Searchlight guy thinks that angering a key Dem constituency is a good thing. My guy you sound like the absolute worst political strategist and all you are going to do is help Dems lose harder.
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EPIC applauds the passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) today: epic.org/epic-applaud...
EPIC Applauds Passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code
<p>Today, the Vermont Legislature passed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The Vermont AADC protects kids’ privacy, enhances kids’ autonomy, and ensures their online safety by prohibitin...
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May 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
EPIC applauds the passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) today: epic.org/epic-applaud...
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⚠️ NetChoice v. Bonta: An oral argument explainer 🧵
EPIC Senior Counsel Megan Iorio (@meganiorio.bsky.social) and EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien (@tommcbrien.bsky.social) broke down key areas of argument ahead of today’s Ninth Circuit hearing of NetChoice v. Bonta: epic.org/ninth-circui...
EPIC Senior Counsel Megan Iorio (@meganiorio.bsky.social) and EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien (@tommcbrien.bsky.social) broke down key areas of argument ahead of today’s Ninth Circuit hearing of NetChoice v. Bonta: epic.org/ninth-circui...
Ninth Circuit oral argument in NetChoice's challenge to CA's addictive feed law is coming up in a few minutes. We @epic.org put together a quick preview of the argument. epic.org/ninth-circui...
Ninth Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Case About Whether Algorithms Directed to Induce Habit-Forming Behavior Are Protected Speech
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April 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
⚠️ NetChoice v. Bonta: An oral argument explainer 🧵
EPIC Senior Counsel Megan Iorio (@meganiorio.bsky.social) and EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien (@tommcbrien.bsky.social) broke down key areas of argument ahead of today’s Ninth Circuit hearing of NetChoice v. Bonta: epic.org/ninth-circui...
EPIC Senior Counsel Megan Iorio (@meganiorio.bsky.social) and EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien (@tommcbrien.bsky.social) broke down key areas of argument ahead of today’s Ninth Circuit hearing of NetChoice v. Bonta: epic.org/ninth-circui...
Ninth Circuit oral argument in NetChoice's challenge to CA's addictive feed law is coming up in a few minutes. We @epic.org put together a quick preview of the argument. epic.org/ninth-circui...
Ninth Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Case About Whether Algorithms Directed to Induce Habit-Forming Behavior Are Protected Speech
epic.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ninth Circuit oral argument in NetChoice's challenge to CA's addictive feed law is coming up in a few minutes. We @epic.org put together a quick preview of the argument. epic.org/ninth-circui...
All of that to say he didn’t like what she said in her op-ed so he sent goons to disappear her off the street.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
All of that to say he didn’t like what she said in her op-ed so he sent goons to disappear her off the street.
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A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
www.tuftsdaily.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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Thanks Prem for amplifying!
Please sign onto this Columbia boycott (with a carve out for departments and people targeted).
We cannot proceed with business as usual. We cannot give colloquia on a campus that's colluding with authoritarians dragging their students off campus.
Please sign onto this Columbia boycott (with a carve out for departments and people targeted).
We cannot proceed with business as usual. We cannot give colloquia on a campus that's colluding with authoritarians dragging their students off campus.
Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
March 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Thanks Prem for amplifying!
Please sign onto this Columbia boycott (with a carve out for departments and people targeted).
We cannot proceed with business as usual. We cannot give colloquia on a campus that's colluding with authoritarians dragging their students off campus.
Please sign onto this Columbia boycott (with a carve out for departments and people targeted).
We cannot proceed with business as usual. We cannot give colloquia on a campus that's colluding with authoritarians dragging their students off campus.
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The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
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In today’s one-two punch, the @aaup.bsky.social National alongside MESA & 3 of our chapters also sued the Trump administration over their unconstitutional ideological-deportation policies that have chilled speech & dissent on campuses nationwide.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...
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AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In today’s one-two punch, the @aaup.bsky.social National alongside MESA & 3 of our chapters also sued the Trump administration over their unconstitutional ideological-deportation policies that have chilled speech & dissent on campuses nationwide.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...
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2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil:
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
March 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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My analysis of the decision issued yesterday in the CA Age-Appropriate Design Code case. Short of it is that the First Amendment analysis is wrong and unnecessary and the judge shouldn’t have opined on the constitutional questions at all b/c the case could have been decided on severability.
Yesterday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against CA’s Age-Appropriate Design Code in its entirety.
The judge's 1st Amend. analysis flouted directions from the 9th Cir. & SCOTUS to more critically examine Big Tech’s demands for broad relief from regulation.
epic.org/judge-in-cal...
The judge's 1st Amend. analysis flouted directions from the 9th Cir. & SCOTUS to more critically examine Big Tech’s demands for broad relief from regulation.
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Judge in California Age-Appropriate Design Code Case Gets the First Amendment Wrong—Again
<p>Yesterday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code(“CAADC”) in its entirety. In doing so, the judge flouted directions from the Ninth Circui...
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March 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
My analysis of the decision issued yesterday in the CA Age-Appropriate Design Code case. Short of it is that the First Amendment analysis is wrong and unnecessary and the judge shouldn’t have opined on the constitutional questions at all b/c the case could have been decided on severability.
Fuck yeah Georgetown Law, this is how you stand up to threats from an authoritarian regime. As an alumna, I knew Martin has picked a fight with the wrong school. GULC is deeply committed to the critical study of law & supports students pursuing public interest in ways other top schools don’t.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Fuck yeah Georgetown Law, this is how you stand up to threats from an authoritarian regime. As an alumna, I knew Martin has picked a fight with the wrong school. GULC is deeply committed to the critical study of law & supports students pursuing public interest in ways other top schools don’t.
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
When will Democrats learn you can’t out-Republican the Republicans but you can deploy populism to address the actual problems we’re facing. Trump is dismantling democracy, he is screwing with your social security, he is shredding the freedom to speak, and he’s making every damn one of us less safe.
I’m six years younger than Elissa Slotkin but I also remember the horrible Reagan years when he left the queer community to die and Black communities to drown in poverty and started the destruction of higher ed so I know any Democrat trying to take us back to that era fucking sucks
March 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When will Democrats learn you can’t out-Republican the Republicans but you can deploy populism to address the actual problems we’re facing. Trump is dismantling democracy, he is screwing with your social security, he is shredding the freedom to speak, and he’s making every damn one of us less safe.
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🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵
Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
February 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵
Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
The Ninth Circuit has enjoined California's law regulating addictive feeds pending appeal. No opinion attached. Merits briefing in the appeal will proceed on an expedited schedule (completed by mid-to-late March) and hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the Ninth Circuit to rule thereafter.
January 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Ninth Circuit has enjoined California's law regulating addictive feeds pending appeal. No opinion attached. Merits briefing in the appeal will proceed on an expedited schedule (completed by mid-to-late March) and hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the Ninth Circuit to rule thereafter.
Of all the blatantly unconstitutional things Trump is up to this is up at the top of the list. Yet because it’s about people speaking in support of Palestinian human rights what do you want to bet it doesn’t get the attention that other Trump actions have.
Trump’s poised to order deportation of pro-Palestinian student protestors. Here’s the thing—the First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump administration to cancel student visas of all 'Hamas sympathizers', White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Of all the blatantly unconstitutional things Trump is up to this is up at the top of the list. Yet because it’s about people speaking in support of Palestinian human rights what do you want to bet it doesn’t get the attention that other Trump actions have.
Key takeaways from the TikTok v. Garland decision from @epic.org penned by my colleague @tommcbrien.bsky.social
In TikTok v. Garland, Supreme Court Sends Good Vibes for Privacy Laws, But Congress’s Targeting of TikTok Alone Won’t Do Much to Protect Privacy
<p>We need protections from all of these companies, not just TikTok, and we can only achieve them through a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law, vigorous antitrust enforcement, and other regulat...
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January 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Key takeaways from the TikTok v. Garland decision from @epic.org penned by my colleague @tommcbrien.bsky.social