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.
Besides Musk being very wrong on incitement law, it's really stupid as the owner of X to advocate for this (since X is not immunized for violations of federal criminal law by the speech of its users). Is he going to start taking such speech down from X? Or only when it is said about his buddies?
I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Besides Musk being very wrong on incitement law, it's really stupid as the owner of X to advocate for this (since X is not immunized for violations of federal criminal law by the speech of its users). Is he going to start taking such speech down from X? Or only when it is said about his buddies?
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Please clap for the Wutang reference.
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Privacy is For the Children (Too)
Age verification will not keep children safe online. Rather, it is a large proverbial hammer that nails everyone—adults and young people alike—into restrictive parameters of what the government deems ...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Please clap for the Wutang reference.
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A First Amendment win! The court has ordered a temporary pause to the administrative subpoena to Meta seeking the identities of the Benito Beet Beat Facebook page authors. A new hearing is scheduled for 12/10 at 10AM. More about this case: firstamendmentcoalition.org/case/doe-v-c...
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A First Amendment win! The court has ordered a temporary pause to the administrative subpoena to Meta seeking the identities of the Benito Beet Beat Facebook page authors. A new hearing is scheduled for 12/10 at 10AM. More about this case: firstamendmentcoalition.org/case/doe-v-c...
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BREAKING: FAC has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent San Benito County from violating the First Amendment rights of two anonymous journalists who run Benito Beet Beat, a satirical news outlet on Facebook. firstamendmentcoalition.org/case/doe-v-c...
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
BREAKING: FAC has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent San Benito County from violating the First Amendment rights of two anonymous journalists who run Benito Beet Beat, a satirical news outlet on Facebook. firstamendmentcoalition.org/case/doe-v-c...
Wow. Some great opportunities here.
We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Wow. Some great opportunities here.
The pardoning of the turkeys just seems a little less special this year.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The pardoning of the turkeys just seems a little less special this year.
ICYMI: we filed two more completely awesome lawsuits last week.
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
ICYMI: we filed two more completely awesome lawsuits last week.
Oh great. Assholes inventing generative assholery. Surely agentic assholery is next.
Like probably the one thing they really need no help with.
Like probably the one thing they really need no help with.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Oh great. Assholes inventing generative assholery. Surely agentic assholery is next.
Like probably the one thing they really need no help with.
Like probably the one thing they really need no help with.
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Data is power. In a climate where so many of us worry about which rights the government will take away next, EFF is focused on protecting your data privacy. Support our work today: supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
Defend Privacy and Free Speech
Don’t let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Data is power. In a climate where so many of us worry about which rights the government will take away next, EFF is focused on protecting your data privacy. Support our work today: supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
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Here are the law enforcement agencies who searched Flock Safety's ALPR database related to this year's No Kings protests.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here are the law enforcement agencies who searched Flock Safety's ALPR database related to this year's No Kings protests.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Or big, white shoe law firms promising to do $1 zillion of pro bono work on conservative cases
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Or big, white shoe law firms promising to do $1 zillion of pro bono work on conservative cases
Hey big, white-shoe law firms that bent the knee, renege on your deals! You clearly can be sufficiently obsequious by simply smiling at and complimenting him without promising zillions of pro bono services and throwing your diversity initiatives in the trash
As I've said before ... if you are one of the firms that reached 'agreements' with Trump, it's not too late to change your mind.
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Hey big, white-shoe law firms that bent the knee, renege on your deals! You clearly can be sufficiently obsequious by simply smiling at and complimenting him without promising zillions of pro bono services and throwing your diversity initiatives in the trash
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Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
Just a guess that "human rights implications" aren't going to be the human rights we talk about when we in the human rights filed talk about human rights.
Also, wtf "existential threat to Western civilization"?
Also, wtf "existential threat to Western civilization"?
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Just a guess that "human rights implications" aren't going to be the human rights we talk about when we in the human rights filed talk about human rights.
Also, wtf "existential threat to Western civilization"?
Also, wtf "existential threat to Western civilization"?
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A California court ruled utility companies can't team up with police to search through thousands of people's energy usage data without suspicion. Big win for the people of Sacramento www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A California court ruled utility companies can't team up with police to search through thousands of people's energy usage data without suspicion. Big win for the people of Sacramento www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Everyone sees a constitutional fight. The only reason this law was passed was to set up a case to give conservatives on SCOTUS the opportunity to overrule Stone v Graham and McCreary County v ACLU since it has already formally ditched the Lemon test and gutted endorsement. It's 100% test case.
Texas schools are hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms under a new law. Some see a moral guide — others see a constitutional fight.
Beliefs clash among students, parents and teachers as the Ten Commandments go up in Texas classrooms
A new Texas law says every public school classroom must display a poster listing the Ten Commandments.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Everyone sees a constitutional fight. The only reason this law was passed was to set up a case to give conservatives on SCOTUS the opportunity to overrule Stone v Graham and McCreary County v ACLU since it has already formally ditched the Lemon test and gutted endorsement. It's 100% test case.
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Cops around the country searched Flock Safety ALPR databases related to the No Kings protests.
It's no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, cops were watching those streets through different lenses: Flock Safety license plate readers that tracked every car. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national
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November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Cops around the country searched Flock Safety ALPR databases related to the No Kings protests.
shamefully, it begins apnews.com/article/meta...
Meta alerts young Australians to download their data before a social media ban
Meta has started notifying young Australians to download their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
shamefully, it begins apnews.com/article/meta...
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Were DOJ's demands to tech companies like Apple and Facebook accompanied by threats? EFF is suing to find out www.eff.org/press/releas...
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Were DOJ's demands to tech companies like Apple and Facebook accompanied by threats? EFF is suing to find out www.eff.org/press/releas...
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📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...
EFF Demands Answers About ICE-Spotting App Takedowns
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) today to uncover information about the federal government demanding that
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November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...
Swastikas and nooses are not hate speech.
Vaccines and autism may be linked.
2+2=5
Vaccines and autism may be linked.
2+2=5
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Swastikas and nooses are not hate speech.
Vaccines and autism may be linked.
2+2=5
Vaccines and autism may be linked.
2+2=5
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This is a huge threat to free speech and democracy.
Trump is now engaged in behind the scenes maneuvers to insure that all major US broadcast media is in the control of tech bros and other oligarchs who have pledged personal fealty to him. Next up: Warner Bros. www.ft.com/content/8e46...
The matrix: Ellison overtures for Warner Bros kick off bidding war
Father-and-son tech billionaires flash cash to overcome rivals Netflix and Comcast as they pursue a Hollywood empire
www.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is a huge threat to free speech and democracy.
I love our new lawsuit! We're suing the US government to bring some light to its jawboning of online platform to remove ICE tracking apps. Awesome work @aaronmackey.bsky.social and @mariotrujillo.bsky.social www.eff.org/press/releas...
Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance
SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose and its police department routinely violate the California Constitution by conducting warrantless searches of the stored records of millions of drivers’ private habits, mov...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I love our new lawsuit! We're suing the US government to bring some light to its jawboning of online platform to remove ICE tracking apps. Awesome work @aaronmackey.bsky.social and @mariotrujillo.bsky.social www.eff.org/press/releas...
The latest from the free-speechiest administration ever: "Woke" "is virtually illegal"! Don't want any of you to be woke speech tools!
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The latest from the free-speechiest administration ever: "Woke" "is virtually illegal"! Don't want any of you to be woke speech tools!