Kerry Maeve Sheehan
@KerMaeve
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Attorney @NetChoice. First Amendment, online speech, intermediary liability, and copyright. Views are my own and not my employer's.
Joined September 2015
Starting right now!
Tomorrow, Friday 9 AM: @BerkeleyLaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky argues in the 9th Circuit in Thakur v. Trump. He will defend preliminary injunctions that restored ~$1 billion in research grants to the 10-campus UC system. Watch the livestream:
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🚨BREAKING: Colorado Online Censorship Label Law HALTED in NetChoice Lawsuit DENVER–Today, a U.S. District Court granted NetChoice’s request to temporarily halt Colorado’s censorship law that would have compelled online businesses to display government-mandated "warning"
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A new identity system threatens to create an Internet that is licensed, gated, and subject to identification checks, qualification tests, and blacklists at every turn https://t.co/vjpc3kQTb5
aclu.org
Two trends threaten the creation of a bureaucratic wall between Americans and the information they have a right to access
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One of the dangers of Age Verification normalizing -loss of anonymity under repressive regimes
techradar.com
Russians could soon lose their anonymity on the internet
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Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information. It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/ https://t.co/g2gH8OcJTV
verfassungsblog.de
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) established a host of new transparency mandates for online platforms. One of the simplest yet most critical allows researchers to collect or “scrape” data that is...
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Safety and freedom are not mutually exclusive. NetChoice's Digital Safety Shield offers a roadmap for protecting families, securing kids, and preserving the online liberty that Americans cherish.
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ICE surround car of Illinois legislator—hold him and staff at gunpoint. "Agents sandwiched our car in," said State Rep. Hoan Huynh. "Then they went to the passenger side and pulled a gun to my face—and to my colleague's face." "They threatened us to bash in the windows. In
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Independent newspapers, often family businesses or locally owned, are disappearing as private investment firms take over the industry. "...the majority of remaining papers in the US will be even more heavily concentrated among larger hedge funds & private equity-backed groups."
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The First Amendment protects every American’s right to speak, think, and share ideas freely without government interference. We're honored to work to defend this right in online spaces.
It's Free Speech Week! 👩‍💻🤳📣 NetChoice is proud to fight every day to ensure free, vibrant expression is protected in the digital age.
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Research from @senatorshoshana & @moflatley found that children are the #1 targets for identity theft, with 25% expected to experience it before they turn 18. To increase online safety in America, Congress should pass a unified, nationwide privacy standard.
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Thanks to @ccianet for this great breakdown of why app store age verification in a bad idea in practice! https://t.co/inqXRSA6c6
ccianet.org
Lawmakers in several states and in Congress have proposed bills similar to Utah’s App Store Accountability Act that force app stores to verify every user’s
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This Global Encryption Day, we're celebrating end-to-end encryption as a critical tech shield that helps protect user privacy, communications, sensitive information, and overall cybersecurity in digital spaces 🔒 🎉 👩‍💻
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ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia said on an @nyuniversity panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
nyunews.com
“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200...
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📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢 EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
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NetChoice is challenging a similar law in Colorado, HB 24-1136. Colorado has also forced websites and online publishers to parrot the state’s message, which violates the First Amendment. Politicians can’t hide online censorship behind warning labels.
The New York Legislature passed S4505, mandating warning labels on social media platforms for all users, mirroring California's AB 56. This would compel companies to surveil users and deliver government-mandated messages, amounting to compelled speech in violation of the First
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Dear Governments, Social media companies are not your mouthpieces. You can feel free to post your concerns on those sites, but you cannot force the websites to adopt your message as their own. This is basic First Amendment stuff. Sincerely, A very tired lawyer
The New York Legislature passed S4505, mandating warning labels on social media platforms for all users, mirroring California's AB 56. This would compel companies to surveil users and deliver government-mandated messages, amounting to compelled speech in violation of the First
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Today, CCIA sued Texas over its unconstitutional mobile app store law, SB2420, the “App Store Accountability Act.” This sweeping measure would restrict access to lawful content, compel speech, invade user privacy, and impede commerce. More here: https://t.co/6trNDojYZK
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This is great. The internet is an inescapable part of modern life. Instead of preventing kids from using it, teach them how to use it safely.
kyma.com
By Gordon Ebanks, CNN (CNN) — Scouting America, the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, is giving scouts the chance to earn two merit badges that engage new technology: one in artificial...
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🏛️NetChoice in Court TODAY to Stop Colorado Censorship Labels on Online Speech DENVER—NetChoice is in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, asking for HB 24-1136 to be halted while our case proceeds through the legal system. This is the first lawsuit of its kind
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