Matt BlazeFeeling pretty smug about all those clocks I never bothered to change back in November.
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Cathy Gellis
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US lawyer and former Internet professional interested in tech, international law, civil liberties & their convergence, plus the sociology of technology adoption and communications. Contributor at techdirt.com, recurrent guest on This Week in Google. Unabashed Huey Lewis and the News fan.
It’s probably once again a bad time, historically speaking, for archdukes to ride in open convertibles.
It was a two-podcast week for me! In addition to being on Paula Poundstone's podcast, I also was on the Techdirt podcast talking about the Supreme Court and the Internet.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/techdirt-podcast-episode-443-the-supreme-courts-internet-cases/
I was on the latest episode of Paula Poundstone's podcast talking about the First Amendment. Listen for a shout-out to anti-SLAPP laws, an explanation why "can't shout fire in a crowded theater" is NOT the law, and a caution to think twice about overruling Citizens United. (My segment starts ~39ish minutes in.)
I have a new post at Techdirt that is both a look back at just about everything I've written about Section 230 since its 20th birthday, and a crash course in how it works and why we need it.
On Section 230’s 30th Birthday, A Look Back At Why It’s Such A Good Law And Why Messing With It Would Be Bad
This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old. In those 30 years it has proven to be a marvelous yet misunderstood law, often gravely, as too many, including in Congress and the courts, mistake…
In my latest post for Techdirt, I argued that it's time to call a spade a spade. The comparisons between what the Trump Administration is doing, and what the German Nazis did, is inescapable. And denying it (as the US Holocaust Museum shamefully did) just makes us more vulnerable to it.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/speak-its-name-yes-this-is-naziism/
Despite everything that happened at Davos, I still haven't forgotten about the Epstein files.
Greg Bell@cathygellis there should be an open document for articles of impeachment, appended every week by his new atrocities. Let's see the *weight* of his crimes accumulate instead of just the "crime of the week"
Food for thought... In my latest Techdirt post I wonder what if Trump has already effectively abandined the presidency? What do we do? What do the courts do?
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/a-year-in-and-its-time-to-recognize-the-oval-office-is-empty/
Perhaps my most timely Techdirt post ever:
Today SCOTUS granted cert in a case involving electronic surveillance.
Yesterday I published a post from a Justice Gorsuch concurrence on Wednesday, suggesting the Court was ready to revisit how the 4th Amendment applied to electronic surveillance.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/justice-gorsuch-reminds-the-fourth-amendment-isnt-dead-yet/
