Ari Cohn

First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom (x2)
Prev: @theFIREorg (x3), BigLaw

Illini/music junkie/oofnik.

Tweets are my own.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

This tweet struck a chord with me, and while I don't often get personal on the Tweeters, given the point made here, I feel it's important. So here we go. Happy #pridemonth. https://t.co/LzkAieFT2h

Confession: When I was younger, I never really bought into the idea of "pride."

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@sl2111 If you eat that, I'll bet it's fudge that's around the corner

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

If your taste buds have been permanently destroyed in some freak accident, this is certainly an option you could choose

[Alva Myers @tizintest]

You can buy ground beef already cooked and drained at Walmart for 10 cents more per pound than the raw ground beef which you have to then cook yourself. $6.74 vs $6.84. Sounds like a no-brainer.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

At best Lindsey Graham was a sniveling coward with no moral compass aside from power.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

Not buying the hand-wringing about the Lindsey Graham thing because "he isn't here to defend himself"

People who seek positions of enormous power and influence are not entitled to the sanitized legacy they'd give you.

They should be remembered for who they really were.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

"Don't speak ill of the dead" is not a shield for the powerful who make decisions that negatively impact the lives of millions.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

"Microwaves fish at the office and watches golf on TV"

[Ben Rothenberg @BenRothenberg]

Vivek Ramaswamy is a terrible candidate for many good reasons, including his recent decisions but it is very funny that “loves tennis” is so foregrounded as an insult in this attack ad against him.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

"I don't want to he in the hospitality business I just want to make quick easy cash *pretending* to be in the hospitality business" is not the sympathetic argument airbnb hosts seem to think it is.

[Matt Williams @Technovangelist]

its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

People hate talking on the phone to *real* people, why would they want to emulate that experience with fake ones?

[jack @jack]

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.

https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@VITO_G_Wagon Hopefully community notes gets you so you can't monetize this idiotic bullshit

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

This-Should-Be-Obvious-To-A-Third-Grader-Tip:

You're allowed to destroy your own property.

[Minister of Electricity @VITO_G_Wagon]

At some point he needs to be arrested for malicious damage to property.

He is destroying the image of these brands, but the brand owners are not realizing this yet.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

This is old news, hardly "just in," but anyway check out https://t.co/vGP6gIVLi7

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@emzanotti The soggy napkin of politicians

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

And yet you refuse to remove cameras when cities cancel their contracts so you can continue surveiling communities against their express wishes.

If you learned anything, it certainly isn't what you ought to have learned.

You and @flocksafety are malignant to the core.

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

I've learned a lot in nine years of building @Flock_Safety. Some of it from our customers, and some of it from the communities they serve.

Today we’re announcing the changes that came from listening. A new standard for privacy, security, and accountability in public safety technology.

We're also asking state legislators to go further. Mandate real auditing on every law enforcement data system. Raise the penalties for misuse. And if your state wants help building it, we'll do it for free.
https://t.co/KEQuBPE1oY

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@FeelTheFern07 Stop trying to ruin my evening!

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@TechFreedom @protctdemocracy And in March, we led a similarly large coalition writing to Carr to address his abuse of the "public interest" standard, calling out his jawboning and reminding him that he has no authority to subject broadcast content to the whims of the administration: https://t.co/t3P9f2hqJi

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

The latest in Carr's ongoing effort to exert government control over political information & discourse.

Today, former FCC officials issued a statement (supported by @TechFreedom & @protctdemocracy) calling his latest threat "a direct attack on free and fair elections."

Link👇

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

During this election season, there has been a significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls designed to do nothing more than interfere with the regular functioning of the electoral process and alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm.

Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the public that those Polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis.

The FCC takes these issues seriously. Broadcasters are prohibited by the terms of their federal licenses from engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes. It is important that broadcasters comply with their public interest obligations. After all, the country benefits greatly when Americans can trust and rely on the media to report the news fairly and accurately.

Broadcasters are advised to avoid engaging in News Distortions or running Broadcast Hoaxes by airing Polls that would violate their regulatory obligations. If broadcasters believe they should provide their viewers with additional context and information about Polls they have covered, they can now take those actions consistent with FCC regulations.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@TechFreedom @protctdemocracy In July, joined by 50 scholars of First Amendment, communications, and technology law and civil liberties organizations, we filed reply comments explaining that the FCC's broad reinterpretation of the Equal Time Rule violates the First Amendment: https://t.co/MKNQzQaHDy

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@emzanotti Sloppy Joe night about to get way sloppier

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

Reminder that the White House Counsel's Office represents the institution, not any individual.

And the Office of the President cannot be defamed or otherwise similarly tortfeased. Scharf had no business making this preposterous threat.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

Lol oh? What's the White House Counsel gonna do about it?

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences.

https://t.co/yKLCpdZfVP

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@ericmetaxas Odd to lie about something so easily verified, weirdo