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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3h

X could face a ban under the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act over the Grok scandal, but legal proportionality tests, free expression limits, and practical enforcement hurdles make it unlikely, writes Owen Bennett.

Why Europe Could Block X Over Grok Scandal But Probably Won’t | TechPolicy.Press

X could be blocked under the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act, but proportionality and technical hurdles make it unlikely, writes Owen Bennett.

buff.ly

Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 7h

Powerful - from someone who has been a witness. "During the interregnum between the last gasps of a democracy and the emergence of a dictatorship, the nation is gaslighted. ... These lies mollify those being frog-marched into their own enslavement." open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

The Machinery of Terror

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

open.substack.com

Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social · 10h

DOJ just published a redacted version of the OLC memo justifying the Administration’s campaign/attacks in Venezuela and capture of Maduro:

www.justice.gov

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 10h

💯 absolutely this. we have a government, if not a society, of impunity for the powerful. whatever happens after this, we need justice & rule of law at the center.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

And again, the <ultimate> reason we're here is that we've always been here & no one has ever gone to jail for treason, dating back to Iran-Contra & really all the way to Appomattox.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

Riana @riana.bsky.social · 11h

ICYMI: I have an op-ed in the @nytimes.com about the Grok scandal and the need for a legal safe harbor for AI red-teaming for CSAM. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem

www.nytimes.com

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

And again, the <ultimate> reason we're here is that we've always been here & no one has ever gone to jail for treason, dating back to Iran-Contra & really all the way to Appomattox.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

👇

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12h

please don't come into my replies & advocate for violence. much of what we need now is for powerful elites to demonstrate the same courage as the huge number of people who are showing up to protect their neighbors, to promise accountability, & to pull every single lawful lever they can to end this

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12h

please don't come into my replies & advocate for violence. much of what we need now is for powerful elites to demonstrate the same courage as the huge number of people who are showing up to protect their neighbors, to promise accountability, & to pull every single lawful lever they can to end this

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 12h

Grok: here's that image of naked Renee Nicole Good with frosting you asked for. Oh and those virtual images of kids being molested

🇬🇧: Pardon the intrusion, but that might just possibly be illegal

🇺🇸: WHY ARE YOU CENSORING CONSERVATIVES?!? WE WILL DEFEND FREE SPEECH. NOTHING IS OFF THE TABLE! 🤯💣☢️

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

a blizzard of lies, day after day after day

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

very well said

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12h

this kind of straightforwardly tyrannical behavior from government officials isn't, of course, unknown in US history, even recently, but it's worth saying again that it fundamentally violates the US's whole system of government, which binds agents of the state and citizens alike to the rule of law

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 12h

As Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers go to the White House to meet Rubio and Vance, Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen was clear:

“If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the EU”

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12h

this kind of straightforwardly tyrannical behavior from government officials isn't, of course, unknown in US history, even recently, but it's worth saying again that it fundamentally violates the US's whole system of government, which binds agents of the state and citizens alike to the rule of law

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

believe me, i hear you

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

the logic of occupation is that logic doesn't matter. rights don't matter. only the power of the occupier, its perceived interests, matter. it is the antithesis of democracy.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

were you curious about what it's like to live under an occupying power?

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h

ppl outside our bsky bubble need to think hard: we are one year into this disaster of a presidency. it will get worse and honestly it's not just ppl in the streets defending neighbors & fellow residents but it's leaders who need to step the f--- up already.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 13h

everyone should see this. it's repression, occupation. (doesn't even make the home page of the paper of record ffs)

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 15h

if you're new to ALPRs and how they contribute to the surveillance state trump is expanding, i recommend this and the links in it

EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review

Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, revealing a system designed to enable mass surveillance and susceptible ...

www.eff.org

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 15h

people no longer need to wonder in the abstract why ALPRs (automated license plate readers) are such a threat to fundamental rights.

Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19h

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates.

share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...

Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists

MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

share.google

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16h

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h

This Bari Weiss edict is the most idiotic manifesto for a legitimate news organization that I have ever seen, and I cannot begin to tell you how many idiots I've come across in my career.

Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

Bari Weiss’s message to the “CBS Evening News” team was blunt.

“Let’s make sure every single night has something with viral potential,” Ms. Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, wrote to top producers as they prepared for the show’s new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, to start his tenure this month with a two-week tour of the country.

“The goal for this road show is not to deliver the news so much as it is to *drive the news*,” Ms. Weiss wrote in a note obtained by The New York Times. “We need to *be the news* for these 10 days.”

Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19h

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates.

share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...

Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists

MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

share.google

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 20h

🇪🇺 Great piece about the much maligned European Digital Services Act (DSA), explained by @davidakaye.bsky.social, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression:

The Trump Lie About Europe and Why it Matters | TechPolicy.Press

The Trump administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation, writes David Kaye.

www.techpolicy.press

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

understood by subordinates as instruction, if not incitement

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bovino on the officer who killed Renee Good: "Hats off to that ICE agent"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bovino on the officer who killed Renee Good: "Hats off to that ICE agent"

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

pay attention to this part. this is how they seek to destroy civil society & the right to protest/speak/criticize/debate in america. (pulled from www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...)

On Sunday, President Trump described Ms. Good and her wife, Becca Good, as being “professional agitators,” adding that the authorities would “find out who’s paying for it.” He offered no evidence to support his claims.

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 1d

👀 re Janice Stein's observations re US removal of Maduro: 1. attack likely had inside Intel help from VP Delcy Rodriguez 2. expert US performance shows little internal CIA resistance to Trump's agenda 3. regime change via internal opposition intel collaboration w Trump could happen in Canada too.

Venezuela to Greenland to .... Canada?

open.spotify.com

Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 1d

The number of Americans who are okay with turning this country into a "papers, please" society is bonkers.

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