Gabe Rusk

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Oxford U & DU |Research: freedom of expression, free press, media law, legal history, journalism, & pacifism | Classical music, tea, cooking, art, video games, & Buddhism on the side. 🏳️‍🌈☮️

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WSJ has fired Hong Kong-based journalist Selina Cheng after she was elected chair of a local journalism union. She was told advocating for press freedom “would be incompatible with my job.” Cheng’s full statement (posted via twitter):

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They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.

Book about book bans banned by Florida school boardwww.theguardian.com Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

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NEW: A Louisiana federal judge has found that civil-rights activist DeRay Mckesson is not legally responsible for injuries inflicted by someone else at a protest he was alleged to have organized OPINION: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... CASE FILE: clearinghouse.net/case/45222/

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This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future. "Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario." EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shiftswww.bloomberg.com We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here.

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Come work for RCFP! We're hiring a new staff attorney, details here: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ReportersCom...

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is looking for a Staff Attorney – Hotline in 1156 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, USAjobs.smartrecruiters.com Staff AttorneyThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Reporters Committee) is hiring an early career attorney to expand the Reporters Committee’s ability to rapidly respond to legal thre...

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“By using malicious words to create confusion, or through spreading fake news and disinformation in daily life, they mount soft resistance,” he said, adding that soft resistance “could be things like the internet, the media, the arts, watching a film or reading a book.” aka whtvr we want it to mean

Head of Hong Kong national security police warns of extremism going ‘underground’ and threats in arts – HKFP

Head of Hong Kong national security police warns of extremism going ‘underground,’ threats in artshongkongfp.com The head of the national security department of the Hong Kong Police Force has warned of security threats going “underground” into arts and extremism despite the enactment of two security laws in t…

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Well this is quite a thing I just had to file in response to a motion filed by the pro se plaintiff suing my clients for defamation.

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A dual U.S.-Saudi citizen is facing a long prison sentence and an even longer travel ban for "extremist ideology" over his cartoon comedy on Netflix and old social media posts. It's not the first time, and likely not the last, that Saudi Arabia has targeted U.S. citizens for their speech.

Netflix Show Earns Its Saudi Creator Plaudits, and a Prison Sentencewww.nytimes.com In a video plea for help, Abdulaziz Almuzaini — a dual Saudi-American citizen — described how the authorities had accused him of promoting extremism through a cartoon franchise.

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So not only do the courts get to have their say on all challenged agency actions, but there's basically no limit on challenging those actions. Cool.

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The Supreme Court today has supercharged its decision last week gutting Chevron by effectively reopening the statute of limitations to challenge *any* regulation, as Justice Jackson, dissenting, explains.

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Here's a 'cite' to a paper of mine that I have not written, published in an article in a predatory journal

Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers. Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in. But it wasn't real. AI is not good for science.

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There is a *very* sharp paragraph in Justice Kagan's dissent in Loper Bright on the dance this conservative majority has performed repeatedly to weaken liberal precedents en route to overturning them altogether -- on worker's rights, on the Establishment Clause, and on voting rights.

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It's Friday, so another part of the free-press collection: A *very rare* 1766 first printing (!) of the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765. The act taxed paper, including newspapers. Arguably, it was the Stamp Act that, more than anything, lit the spark of the Revolution.

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I spent a lot of time researching this piece, I hope it’s helpful.

The Global Suppression of Online LGBTQ+ Speech Continueswww.eff.org A global increase in anti-LGBTQ+ intolerance is having a significant impact on digital rights. As we wrote last year, censorship of LGBTQ+ websites and online content is on the rise. For many LGBTQ+

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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got

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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...

Knight Institute's Amicus Brief (in support of Petitioners)knightcolumbia.org

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NEW ESSAY!! The Government Speech Doctrine Ate My Class: First Amendment Capture and Curriculum Bans The govt speech doctrine makes it almost impossible for teachers to challenge academic gag rules & may preclude student challenges. It should not. Please check out this almost finished paper!

The Government Speech Doctrine Ate My Class: First Amendment Capture and Curriculum Banspapers.ssrn.com <p>Because of the government speech doctrine, public school curriculum restrictions like “Don’t Say Gay” mandates and bans on teaching critical race theory may

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SCOTUS sets a new decision day for next Monday!

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In Texas, admin retaliating against faculty who speak up is the norm. Yet another example. www.texastribune.org/2024/06/25/t...

A Tarleton State University instructor complained about parking fees.…www.texastribune.org The university’s faculty senate said the administration’s decision “resulted in a widespread impression of a retaliatory environment.”

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I would have lost because I would have spent the whole time wondering if they wanted what FOIA stood for, the USC cite, the public law cite, or the statutory cite.

The current champ got it.

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NEW BLOG POST: In “Are We Saving the News?”, Martha Minow of Harvard Law analyzes the decline of local #news and identifies paths to revitalization. Read it here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/are-we-...

Are We Saving the News?knightcolumbia.org

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What is chosen to get sent out as a push notification and why is a question more people should ask about the news.

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Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Here’s where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:

40 Acres and a Liewww.motherjones.com 40ACRES AND A LIE A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down...

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I cant believe they didnt call this watergate

lolwut www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over monthswww.theguardian.com Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll

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Oh, how I love my alma mater. Why does it keep letting me down so? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

UNC dismisses professor after secretly recording his classeswww.insidehighered.com The university recorded Larry Chavis’s class without his consent for a professional review. Last week he was told his contract would not be renewed.

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When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead Despite past misconduct, some former therapists have continued their careers as life coaches. Now, after a high-profile conviction in Utah, legislators are asking whether it’s time for more oversight.

When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Insteadwww.propublica.org Despite past misconduct, some former therapists have continued their careers as life coaches. Now, after a high-profile conviction in Utah, legislators are asking whether it’s time for more oversight.

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Widening blast radius around Franklin Square www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reportingwww.washingtonpost.com Unpublished book drafts and other documents raise questions about Robert Winnett’s journalistic record just months before he is to assume a top newsroom role.

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I just posted a new article on @SSRN: "the Press": A Response to Professor Volokh It draws into doubt @VolokhC's influential view that the Press Clause at the Founding meant only the right to use the printing press. I hope you have the opportunity to read it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"the Press": A Response to Professor Volokhpapers.ssrn.com For more than a decade, Professor Eugene Volokh's article-Freedom For The Press As An Industry, Or For The Press As A Technology? From The Framing To Today-has

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🧵 Today marks 53 years since the New York Times started publishing the Pentagon Papers – the 7,000 page top-secret study detailing decades of official lies about the Vietnam War It was, of course, given to the newspaper by the legendary whistleblower and FPF co-founder Daniel Ellsberg.

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One of China's most prominent feminist activists is reportedly about to be sentenced on charges of "inciting subversion." Free Huang Xueqin - BBC profile by Jessie Lau. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_t...

How China's silenced feminist Sophia Huang Xueqin went missing - BBC Newswww.youtube.com Sophia Huang Xueqin, a high-profile feminist journalist who kick-started China’s #MeToo movement, went missing in 2021. She was awarded a prestigious Chevening scholarship in the summer earlier that year, funded by the British government to pursue gender studies at the University of Sussex. But in September, on the way to the airport to catch her flight to the UK, Sophia and fellow activist Wang Jianbing “vanished.” Sophia and Jianbing are among tens of thousands in China being rounded up and detained in a wider state crackdown on activists in recent years. The two are expected to face trial for “inciting subversion of state power”. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog #China #BBCNews