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Jameel Jaffer

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Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.

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I was prepared for disaster, but the Netchoice decision is good. It rejects the broadest arguments made by the states and the platforms. It recognizes that platforms are ‘editors’ but dismisses the argument that regulation in this sphere is categorically unconstitutional.

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The TikTok ban violates the First Amendment and "recalls practices that have long been associated with repressive governments." Here's the brief @knightcolumbia.org @freepress.bsky.social & PEN America just filed in the DC Circuit. knightcolumbia.org/documents/jz...

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Good for Assange. Good for Biden. Bad for press freedom, but not the catastrophe it could have been. theintercept.com/2024/06/24/j...

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Martha Minow on how to save the news, and why the news is worth saving--the latest installment in @knightcolumbia.org's series on the future of press freedom. knightcolumbia.org/blog/are-we-...

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Mailyn Fidler looks at the policy failures that have failed to curb commercial spyware, including export controls, and argues that the U.S. should use comprehensive sanctions based on the Magnitsky Act to target spyware vendors.

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The law review editors who solicited Rabea Eghbariah's pieces for the Harvard Law Review and the Columbia Law Review have a new op-ed arguing that complaints about procedural irregularities in the editorial process were selective and pretextual. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I talked with Noah Feldman about the role of the university in political and social action, and about the feasibility and advisability of "institutional neutrality." Latest episode of War & Speech, just posted. www.buzzsprout.com/2087831/1519...

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Republicans are talking about sanctioning the International Criminal Court over the news that the Prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant.

My take: Don't Go to War with the ICC, in @ForeignAffairs

www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/dont-...

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Drew Gilpin Faust, president emerita of Harvard, delivered these eloquent, powerful remarks yesterday. A full-throated and much-needed defense of the university--not Harvard specifically, but "the university" as a concept and institution. Excellent, and worth reading,. drewfaust.com/2024/05/21/f...

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Maybe Altman should have gotten a second opinion.

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I have a piece up at the NYT just now. It begins, "In seeking the arrests of senior leaders of Israel and Hamas, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has given the world a promise of accountability." It ends, "Both Israelis and Palestinians are owed it."

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University administrators and political leaders who complain that students too-often caricature their opponents rather than listen to them should listen to their students rather than caricature them. (This is a really good piece by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.) www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...

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I don’t. I wonder if FIRE might be tracking these?

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Restricting citizens’ access to media from abroad is a practice associated with repressive regimes, so it’s sad and alarming that we’re going down this road. Here’s our brief, filed late last night, in support of TikTok’s challenge to Montana’s ban. knightcolumbia.org/documents/v2...

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“All of this trouble really started with Congress.” This piece by Aryeh Neier, who led the ACLU in the 1970s and co-founded Human Rights Watch, is excellent and worth reading. newrepublic.com/article/1812...

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Okay, I wrote about Zuck v. Zuck, this new fascinating case in which @ethanz.bsky.social is suing Meta with the help of @knightcolumbia.org, in which they may have found a trojan horse to push for adversarial interoperability hidden all these years in Section 230, which no one noticed.

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We launched this podcast to try to explore the free speech fallout of the war in a principled, rigorous, reflective way. Listeners will have to decide whether we’re succeeding—but thanks to @genevievelakier.bsky.social Eugene Volokh, Radhika Sainath & Will Creeley for talking with me.

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Thanks, Heidi—really glad you’re listening.

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There’s a long line of cases in which the courts have interpreted the First A to protect the right to hear, not just the right to speak. Red Lion, Lamont, Kleindienst

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Repackaging the government’s reasons for the ban in the language of ‘national security’ doesn't change the analysis. There’s no national security exception to the First Amendment, and creating such an exception would make the First Amendment a dead letter. (2/x)

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The TikTok bill is unconstitutional. The First Amendment means the government can’t restrict Americans’ access to ideas, information, or media from abroad without a very good reason for it—and no such reason exists here. (1/x)

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You have to give the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt this: he is not hiding the ball here. He’s being quite clear about the aim to delegitimize a wide array of speech.

www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/o...

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I'm not persuaded that a TikTok ban suddenly becomes more defensible if the government says it's necessary for national security. The national security argument is just a repackaging of the propaganda argument, which the Supreme Court has already rejected. www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-b...

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People say that the major political parties can't agree on anything, but we have learned that there is deep bipartisan consensus that we should send other countries more weapons, ban Americans from accessing foreign media, and subject Americans to more surveillance.

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The first two excerpts are from a February 2023 NYT column. The second two are from a NYT column published yesterday. The same columnist -- Pamela Paul -- wrote both. 14 months apart. Just a mind-blowing lack of self-awareness.

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It might. Not sure if that law extends beyond disciplinary proceedings--I just don't know. But it's a shameful and pathetic decision even if it's not unlawful.

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OTOH there is surely a free-speech entitlement not to have one’s commencement address canceled on the basis of political viewpoint. I mean, if basic First Amendment principles apply at USC, as USC says they do. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/u...

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The USC decision is disgraceful. So many universities, cultural institutions shutting down speech rather than defending it. A really bleak moment.

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