Kate Klonick
@klonick.bsky.social
Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
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National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.
Victims of the shooter and the president.
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Of course the first American pope has Turkey for Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
In Turkey, Pope Meets Erdogan With Message of Outreach
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Of course the first American pope has Turkey for Thanksgiving.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
The Good News: I don’t think 99% of the world has a good conception of what “political journalism” is such that this has an effect
The Bad News: This is just lucrative for these two psychopaths specifically and it’s bad for all journalism generally
The Bad News: This is just lucrative for these two psychopaths specifically and it’s bad for all journalism generally
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Good News: I don’t think 99% of the world has a good conception of what “political journalism” is such that this has an effect
The Bad News: This is just lucrative for these two psychopaths specifically and it’s bad for all journalism generally
The Bad News: This is just lucrative for these two psychopaths specifically and it’s bad for all journalism generally
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Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order.
Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one.
It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/
Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one.
It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. Attorney General ‘deeply disturbed’ by social media giant’s intimate image case
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the intern...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order.
Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one.
It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/
Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one.
It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/
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We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.org
StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm.
StopNCII.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
Not me the week of Thanksgiving waiting to pick up a one-way rental from Hertz 👀
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Not me the week of Thanksgiving waiting to pick up a one-way rental from Hertz 👀
Sometimes I wake up and wonder what Christopher Hitchens would have to say about all this.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Sometimes I wake up and wonder what Christopher Hitchens would have to say about all this.
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
This.
The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This.
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NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
A month of Elon Musk on X: Conspiracy theories, fringe politics and self-promotion
An NBC News analysis of one month of Musk’s social media posts shows what’s been on his mind, including a broad cross-section of fringe political topics.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
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D639,006 - issued in 2011 for a design for a "bamboo open trash can." #DesignPatents
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
D639,006 - issued in 2011 for a design for a "bamboo open trash can." #DesignPatents
Actually laughed out loud
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Actually laughed out loud
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
Anna. Do they not have outlets in the café car.
What? Y’all thought I was joking about this?
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Anna. Do they not have outlets in the café car.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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CAN WE JUST HAVE A DULL QUIET WEEK FOR ONCE?
every week just gets weirder tbh
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
CAN WE JUST HAVE A DULL QUIET WEEK FOR ONCE?
Ah yes, who could forget the famous Labours of Hercules which involved trying to deport a construction worker and father of three to a Ugandan prison.
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ah yes, who could forget the famous Labours of Hercules which involved trying to deport a construction worker and father of three to a Ugandan prison.
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From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
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The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.
The European startup market is ready for the limelight | TechCrunch
The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.
techcrunch.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.
Strong Prince John vibes
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Strong Prince John vibes
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Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
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So here’s the scoop: Prosecutors have charged four individuals — two Americans and two Chinese nationals with secretly smuggling hundreds of Nvidia chips and ten HP supercomputers from the US to China.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So here’s the scoop: Prosecutors have charged four individuals — two Americans and two Chinese nationals with secretly smuggling hundreds of Nvidia chips and ten HP supercomputers from the US to China.
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Truly mind-blowing levels of hypocrisy from this admin on using government strong arming to threaten social media companies into censoring
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Truly mind-blowing levels of hypocrisy from this admin on using government strong arming to threaten social media companies into censoring
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...