David Greene (no not that one)

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Civil Liberties Dir. @eff
, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR, the ex-UGA QB or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
NEWS: Loujain AlHathloul's spyware lawsuit against Dark Matter survives a motion to dismiss, and the CFAA claims will proceed in US courts. That is a huge win! Order is temporarily sealed -- we will publish more when it is unsealed. For background: https://www.eff.org/cases/alhathloul-v-darkmatter-group
Judge Howell's' opinion in the Perkins Coie case, to be posted by tomorrow, will in fiery language condemn Trump's effort to distort the normal functioning of the legal system. This critical rule is not limited to the legal system. SCOTUS has similarly said no distortion of other systems too.
USAID (I know, right?) v. Alliance for Open Society Int'l
From NEA v. Finley
From FCC v. League of Women Voters
Here's the rub in the TikTok ruling. You have to read all the way to the end until the Court addresses the content-based rationale that the ban aimed to stop Chinese propaganda and divisive material. This should lead to strict scrutiny. But the Court says No: it can ignore that
Here's our statement on the Supreme Court fast-tracking the TikTok case. As I say "The TikTok ban itself and the DC Circuit's approval of it should be of great concern even to those who find TikTok undesirable or scary." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/eff-statement-us-supreme-courts-decision-consider-tiktok-ban
EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court's Decision to Consider TikTok Ban

The TikTok ban itself and the DC Circuit's approval of it should be of great concern even to those who find TikTok undesirable or scary. Shutting down communications platforms or forcing their reorganization based on concerns of foreign propaganda and anti-national manipulation is an eminently anti...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Also, hard no.

(and that's quite the disclaimer you've squeezed in there in small, light print at the very bottom)

God no