Kathleen Lu
@kathleenthelaw.bsky.social
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Product lawyer, tech lawyer, copyright lawyer
She/her
Product lawyer, tech lawyer, copyright lawyer
She/her
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And here I thought it was the age-verification vendors!
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole…
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole…
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole thing even more grotesque: turns out the campaign pushing hardest for the ban was run by an ad agency that makes gambling ads.
www.techdirt.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
And here I thought it was the age-verification vendors!
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Another example of how fucked originalism is as a methodology. Basically directly imports schmittian colonialism into the constitution, like hey there were some white guys who made an apartheid state and hoarded the weapons for themselves and so we have to read it like a settler colonial hoard law
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Another example of how fucked originalism is as a methodology. Basically directly imports schmittian colonialism into the constitution, like hey there were some white guys who made an apartheid state and hoarded the weapons for themselves and so we have to read it like a settler colonial hoard law
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ICE unlawfully grabbed our client Rümeysa Öztürk off the street and sent her to a for-profit detention center in Louisiana — all for an op-ed she co-authored in her student paper.
What happened to Rümeysa is part of a broader crackdown on the First Amendment and immigrants' rights.
What happened to Rümeysa is part of a broader crackdown on the First Amendment and immigrants' rights.
Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk did nothing wrong. The Trump administration went after her anyway. - The Boston Globe
In March, masked agents swarmed her on a Somerville street. The crackdown on foreign scholars was just beginning.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
ICE unlawfully grabbed our client Rümeysa Öztürk off the street and sent her to a for-profit detention center in Louisiana — all for an op-ed she co-authored in her student paper.
What happened to Rümeysa is part of a broader crackdown on the First Amendment and immigrants' rights.
What happened to Rümeysa is part of a broader crackdown on the First Amendment and immigrants' rights.
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If you ever wanted to know if the sword nerdery in the dialogue of the Wesley/Inigo duel in the Princess Bride was made up or real… It’s real 🥰
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If you ever wanted to know if the sword nerdery in the dialogue of the Wesley/Inigo duel in the Princess Bride was made up or real… It’s real 🥰
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JUST IN: U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling orders U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe detained following charges that he used his gun and badge to rape multiple women.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling just took the bench for a detention hearing in the case of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe, who prosecutors have called a "serial rapist."
O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
JUST IN: U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling orders U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe detained following charges that he used his gun and badge to rape multiple women.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Also, you know whose legal expenses are not paid for even if they were policy makers at the same level as the governor? His victims.
“That brings the state’s costs for the case alone to $10.5 million under a law that entitles state employees to reasonable litigation expenses if they are accused of wrongdoing while serving in their positions.”
Surely these expenses are UNreasonable? Could the comptroller shut this down?
Surely these expenses are UNreasonable? Could the comptroller shut this down?
“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Also, you know whose legal expenses are not paid for even if they were policy makers at the same level as the governor? His victims.
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“If police can threaten arrest or actually arrest people for recording or observing their activities…. [any] law enforcement agency could arrest journalists, investigators, and protesters for documenting abuses of authority.” We must say no to this as a society. Whole thing here at Cato: /6, end
The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.
www.cato.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“If police can threaten arrest or actually arrest people for recording or observing their activities…. [any] law enforcement agency could arrest journalists, investigators, and protesters for documenting abuses of authority.” We must say no to this as a society. Whole thing here at Cato: /6, end
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“These incidents generally do not include the numerous cases of agents damaging home security cameras, throwing phones, or attacking people who follow, record, or protest by foot without threatening to arrest them.” It’s a pattern and practice dangerous to everyone’s liberty. /5
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“These incidents generally do not include the numerous cases of agents damaging home security cameras, throwing phones, or attacking people who follow, record, or protest by foot without threatening to arrest them.” It’s a pattern and practice dangerous to everyone’s liberty. /5
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Not only do border agents regularly arrest or threaten with arrest persons over supposed “obstruction” that doesn’t qualify legally as that offense, but Bier finds they’ve repeatedly engaged in vehicle collisions or near-collisions with drivers who observe them or are simply in the wrong place. /4
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not only do border agents regularly arrest or threaten with arrest persons over supposed “obstruction” that doesn’t qualify legally as that offense, but Bier finds they’ve repeatedly engaged in vehicle collisions or near-collisions with drivers who observe them or are simply in the wrong place. /4
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A judge in Illinois “found this week that agents ‘often treat cars that are merely following them but not driving aggressively as potential threats.’
“As seen in the videos below, Border Patrol repeatedly stop vehicles that follow them to threaten them with arrest—often with weapons drawn.” /3
“As seen in the videos below, Border Patrol repeatedly stop vehicles that follow them to threaten them with arrest—often with weapons drawn.” /3
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A judge in Illinois “found this week that agents ‘often treat cars that are merely following them but not driving aggressively as potential threats.’
“As seen in the videos below, Border Patrol repeatedly stop vehicles that follow them to threaten them with arrest—often with weapons drawn.” /3
“As seen in the videos below, Border Patrol repeatedly stop vehicles that follow them to threaten them with arrest—often with weapons drawn.” /3
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“Noem’s and McLaughlin’s threats [have become] official DHS policy. In a series of videos that I have compiled over the past few weeks, ICE and DHS agents are seen pulling over people who follow them and issuing scripted ‘warnings’ that the observers will be arrested if they continue recording.” /2
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Noem’s and McLaughlin’s threats [have become] official DHS policy. In a series of videos that I have compiled over the past few weeks, ICE and DHS agents are seen pulling over people who follow them and issuing scripted ‘warnings’ that the observers will be arrested if they continue recording.” /2
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Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1
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if you have a bunch of blueberries and one of them is moldy, exposing the others to it doesn’t make the moldy one healthy. it just makes them ALL moldy.
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
if you have a bunch of blueberries and one of them is moldy, exposing the others to it doesn’t make the moldy one healthy. it just makes them ALL moldy.
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Real reporting:
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
Rubio has repeatedly insisted the govt is restarting life-saving foreign aid.
My colleagues found that’s bullshit.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
My colleagues found that’s bullshit.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Real reporting:
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
“ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across…the epicenter of South Sudan’s outbreak…to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting cholera’s devastation after essential services stopped.”
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Co-sign. They are trying to give the unitary executive treatment to a core judicial power.
Gobsmacked. Reminder that judges' inherent powers to hold parties in contempt long predates the DOJ.
JUST IN: DC Circuit asks for briefs on whether Boasberg has authority to investigate indirect contempt of court (outside judge's presence) or is just supposed to refer it for prosecution if he suspects it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Co-sign. They are trying to give the unitary executive treatment to a core judicial power.
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"Pritzker’s scathing attacks on Trump ... have attracted attention in the party — especially because he started them in the days after Trump's election, when other top Democrats, such as CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, were still counseling caution"
Archive link:
archive.ph/WO3T7
Archive link:
archive.ph/WO3T7
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Pritzker’s scathing attacks on Trump ... have attracted attention in the party — especially because he started them in the days after Trump's election, when other top Democrats, such as CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, were still counseling caution"
Archive link:
archive.ph/WO3T7
Archive link:
archive.ph/WO3T7
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BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando.
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando.
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
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Someone had to do it. Reddit is challenging Australia's ban on information access for kids.
Supporters will argue that the ban is justified. But no one should doubt that this is a drastic, unprecedented restriction on freedom to seek and impart information. Court review is definitely warranted.
Supporters will argue that the ban is justified. But no one should doubt that this is a drastic, unprecedented restriction on freedom to seek and impart information. Court review is definitely warranted.
Reddit Sues Australia Over Teen Social Media Ban as Other Nations Consider Similar Laws
Reddit Sues Australia Over Teen Social Media Ban as Other Nations Consider Similar Laws
The company says the law violates teens’ political speech rights as other countries consider similar restrictions.
gizmodo.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Someone had to do it. Reddit is challenging Australia's ban on information access for kids.
Supporters will argue that the ban is justified. But no one should doubt that this is a drastic, unprecedented restriction on freedom to seek and impart information. Court review is definitely warranted.
Supporters will argue that the ban is justified. But no one should doubt that this is a drastic, unprecedented restriction on freedom to seek and impart information. Court review is definitely warranted.
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An Anti-Defamation League that actually believed in its stated mission would savage Trump for his comments about Rob Reiner and his wife, but they are too busy trying to find out whether an Oberlin student said something critical of Israel.
December 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
An Anti-Defamation League that actually believed in its stated mission would savage Trump for his comments about Rob Reiner and his wife, but they are too busy trying to find out whether an Oberlin student said something critical of Israel.
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Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
How the Meaning of 'Publicly Accessible' Shapes Researcher Data Rights Under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press
Researchers eager to begin work under DSA Article 40(12) may be deterred by uncertainty about what data counts as 'publicly accessible,' writes Daphne Keller.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
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@dorfonlaw.bsky.social astutely explains why I have been befuddled why University general counsel have reacted to the DEI order with such terror. An EO is scary because the government has the means to enforce it; the Department of Education fired 1365 people yesterday in the Civil Rights Division.
Most Trump administration actions have real & awful consequences, so reporters need to be more skeptical of his vaporware. In today's essay I discussion 3 Trump charades: an ersatz pardon for a state crime; the AI executive order; and Trump's "concepts of a plan" to repeal & replace Obamacare.
The Vaporware Presidency
In the tech world, the term vaporware is used to describe a product that does not yet and may never exist but that a company hypes for any ...
www.dorfonlaw.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@dorfonlaw.bsky.social astutely explains why I have been befuddled why University general counsel have reacted to the DEI order with such terror. An EO is scary because the government has the means to enforce it; the Department of Education fired 1365 people yesterday in the Civil Rights Division.
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I have listened to fuckheads lecture about how metoo was a problem for due process just for the mere making of allegations and now it's like.....
open season on your reputation if you're accused of killing someone well-known and/or powerful
what the fuck, y'all
open season on your reputation if you're accused of killing someone well-known and/or powerful
what the fuck, y'all
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I have listened to fuckheads lecture about how metoo was a problem for due process just for the mere making of allegations and now it's like.....
open season on your reputation if you're accused of killing someone well-known and/or powerful
what the fuck, y'all
open season on your reputation if you're accused of killing someone well-known and/or powerful
what the fuck, y'all