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
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.
So yeah it's exactly what I thought it was? You're just too cowardly to do anything but hide behind the farcical notion that "policies to protect you from harassment could be used against you somehow" instead of just saying what you actually believe.
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.
What is this preposterous nonsense.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
What is this preposterous nonsense.
Whoever at Google thought it was a good idea to make the Gmail mobile app search results default to "most relevant" instead of "most recent":
That was a terrible idea and you should feel bad about yourself for having had it.
That was a terrible idea and you should feel bad about yourself for having had it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Whoever at Google thought it was a good idea to make the Gmail mobile app search results default to "most relevant" instead of "most recent":
That was a terrible idea and you should feel bad about yourself for having had it.
That was a terrible idea and you should feel bad about yourself for having had it.
One weird behavior that has definitely carried over from other platforms is jumping into a thread you're not involved in to complain that other people are talking to each other.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One weird behavior that has definitely carried over from other platforms is jumping into a thread you're not involved in to complain that other people are talking to each other.
I would also be tired and done. Just thinking about having to deal with COVID *and* two Trump terms makes me want to take a 5-year nap.
BREAKING: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not run for a fourth term. x.com/MurielBowser...
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I would also be tired and done. Just thinking about having to deal with COVID *and* two Trump terms makes me want to take a 5-year nap.
Alejandra Caraballo: I need to be nicer to people.
Also Alejandra: I disagree with you on whether a policy was written unconstitutionally broadly, so I am going to tell the world you WANT trans kids to be bullied and kill themselves.
What a remarkably dishonest, awful human being.
Also Alejandra: I disagree with you on whether a policy was written unconstitutionally broadly, so I am going to tell the world you WANT trans kids to be bullied and kill themselves.
What a remarkably dishonest, awful human being.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Alejandra Caraballo: I need to be nicer to people.
Also Alejandra: I disagree with you on whether a policy was written unconstitutionally broadly, so I am going to tell the world you WANT trans kids to be bullied and kill themselves.
What a remarkably dishonest, awful human being.
Also Alejandra: I disagree with you on whether a policy was written unconstitutionally broadly, so I am going to tell the world you WANT trans kids to be bullied and kill themselves.
What a remarkably dishonest, awful human being.
Imagine thinking you're the good guy.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Imagine thinking you're the good guy.
1/ Blaming platforms for Charlie Kirk's murder because algorithms showed users content hating on him is a cop-out oversimplification.
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
You can’t eliminate real-world violence by suing over online speech
With so much of our national conversation taking place online, there’s an almost reflexive tendency to search for online causes — and online solutions — when tragedy strikes in the physical world.
www.thefire.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
1/ Blaming platforms for Charlie Kirk's murder because algorithms showed users content hating on him is a cop-out oversimplification.
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
A bill introduced as a "fix" likewise fails to ask important questions, like "if Section 230 was gone, would this liability exist?"
www.thefire.org/news/you-can...
What a very strange thing to say.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What a very strange thing to say.
Interesting indeed.
Interesting you're silent on places of learning bullying students on the left of politics. Interesting you're silent on DEI education being silenced. Interesting you're silent for a 1000+1 things Trump is doing against free speech because its people you don't like that he's attacking.
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Interesting indeed.
It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic."
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic."
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
The irony of following "extremists can't recognize their own extremist-ness" with "it should literally be illegal to be mean to anyone" is almost too much to bear.
A trait shared among extremists of any ideology is the inability to recognize one’s extremes. America and our free speech absolutism is a potent example.
Willfully malicious indignity — the context of this thread — should not be legal, let alone defended as a human right.
Willfully malicious indignity — the context of this thread — should not be legal, let alone defended as a human right.
Oh no, you still don't understand that defending the right to free speech is not the same as supporting the content of the speech. I'd work on that if I were you.
Until then, you're tiresome, boring, and pretty transparently a bad-faith actor.
Until then, you're tiresome, boring, and pretty transparently a bad-faith actor.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The irony of following "extremists can't recognize their own extremist-ness" with "it should literally be illegal to be mean to anyone" is almost too much to bear.
It's just so gross that Alejandra Caraballo would use a kid's death at all --but especially so dishonestly -- to win a social media argument.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's just so gross that Alejandra Caraballo would use a kid's death at all --but especially so dishonestly -- to win a social media argument.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
Yet another piece of evidence that she cares more about her Online Relevance (such as it is) than the people she's ostensibly advocating for.
"If you don't think that government has the power to punish speech I think ought to be punished you're nor just not part of the queer community, you're not even a person" is ... not a good look.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"If you don't think that government has the power to punish speech I think ought to be punished you're nor just not part of the queer community, you're not even a person" is ... not a good look.