@normative (Twitter)

“If you exercise your speech rights to respond to what I write, you should thereby become legally liable for what I write.” It’s just totally incoherent.

The bizarre irony of the Twitter/Trump conflict is that if Twitter WERE legally liable for false & defamatory user content, Trump’s account would have been shuttered years ago. And his argument appears to be, to the extent one can be extracted...

Today on @inlieuoffunshow , @klonick and I are joined by @normative of @CatoInstitute and @AdamSerwer of @TheAtlantic . You can join us too at 5:00 pm Eastern time. On Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83008201441 Or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2lz5iwRwqrg

One would hope this goes without saying, but the actual threat to “free speech” here is a president vaguely threatening government action because a private company is engaging in expression that offends him.

“The most obvious takeaway from the Horowitz report is that we need far more comprehensive ‘deep dive’ investigations into the use of intelligence tools." Julian Sanchez ( @normative @CatoInstitute ) writes for our series on #FISAReform. https://justsecurity.org/68061/fixing-fisa-after-the-carter-page-report/ #FISACourt #FISA

Linday Graham just described WhatsApp as a tool “that terrorists use.” WhatsApp has 1.5 billion active users. You might as well describe oxygen as “a gas that terrorists breathe."

NEW and just in time for Weds hearing. "Despite furious efforts from all quarters to claim otherwise, the Inspector General's Report fails to neatly validate anyone's favored political narrative." By @normative ( @CatoInstitute ) https://justsecurity.org/67691/the-crossfire-hurricane-reports-inconvenient-findings/ #InspectorGeneralReport

RT @CatoInstitute: .@normative discusses the DHS's use of facial recognition technology on @CSPANWJ http://j.mp/2lnrt2X #CatoTechnology #CatoCJ

Fun fact: “The Press” wasn’t widely used as a synonym for newspapers until early 19th century; the contemporary usage to mean “journalists” dates from the 20th century. In other words: that's not what it means in the First Amendment. https://www.etymonline.com/word/press

There’s no special set of extra First Amendment rights enjoyed by Government Recognized Journalists. The point of the First Amendment is, in significant part, to avoid making particularized governmental determinations about who is a “real journalist."