Liz Woolery

Tech, free expression, research, & policy. Also solving mysteries & hanging out with dogs in DC. Prev @PENamerica, @Meta, @CenDemTech.

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

living my best life

[TikTok Policy @TikTokPolicy]

Statement on Filing Application for Emergency Injunction Pending Appeal with the Supreme Court:

""The Supreme Court has an established record of upholding Americans’ right to free speech. Today, we are asking the Court to do what it has traditionally done in free speech cases: apply the most rigorous scrutiny to speech bans and conclude that it violates the First Amendment.

The TikTok ban results in a massive and unprecedented censorship of over 170 million Americans on January 19, 2025. Estimates show that small businesses on TikTok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings in just one month unless the ban is halted."

[Center for Democracy & Technology @CenDemTech]

🚨The government is trying to use secret evidence to close down TikTok. On Friday, the DOJ filed a brief in TikTok v. Garland, asking the court to seal info that forms the basis for its claim that TikTok threatens national security. surveillance.https://t.co/xWAE7H8Cnu

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

The Biden admin has finally told the DC Circuit why Americans can't have access to TikTok.

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

A couple of weeks ago I had a great conversation with @WIRED's @telliotter about @CCDHate and Elon Musk's habit of using threats and the legal system to silence critics. This is a great piece that includes some of the larger context and relevant history behind X's lawsuit.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

How X is suing its way out of accountability.

“We're talking about access not just for researchers or academics, but it could also potentially be extended to advocates and journalists and even policymakers,” says @LizWoolery at PEN America. https://t.co/jgXtlbfsss via @WIRED

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

@JoeBeOne Thanks Joe! I just finished my semi-regular list membership update and now I'm looking at some wild pics from today's downburst.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

PEN America v. Book Bans:

Our lawsuit brings together authors whose books have been removed or restricted and parents and students in the district who cannot access the books, in a first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship. Today's press release: https://t.co/yyAqx8BtH4

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

Meanwhile, @StarsAndStripes, which says that Pentagon funding "makes up roughly of [their] annual budget" [1], goes unlabeled. Politically motivated decisions, like this one, are eroding the foundations of democratic engagement.

[1] https://t.co/2O8OvhfeN4 (see the fine print)

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

Yesterday Twitter made an abrupt and irrational choice to label NPR, which receives 1% of its funding from fed. agencies, as “state-affiliated media." The move has the potential to significantly undermine public trust in news institutions, a fundamental part of our democracy.

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

Yesterday Twitter made an abrupt and irrational choice to label NPR, which receives 1% of its funding from fed. agencies, as “state-affiliated media." The move has the potential to significantly undermine public trust in news institutions, a fundamental part of our democracy.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

NPR protests as Twitter calls it 'state-affiliated media.'

@LizWoolery, PEN America’s digital policy leader, said Twitter's decision was “a dangerous move that could further undermine public confidence in reliable news sources.” https://t.co/dGqlMzPuZr

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

In advance of today's Senate Judiciary hearing @PenAmerica joined dozens of organizations on this letter explaining the ways that #Section230 enables expression online, supports diverse communities, and fosters the creation of new digital spaces. https://t.co/2UmhaJctt0

[Lumen @lumendatabase]

🚨🚨🚨 Here is a copy of the legal request sent by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to Twitter requiring removal of tweets discussing @BBCNews
documentary 'India: The Modi Question'

https://t.co/Bj6KlbywHG

[Center for Democracy & Technology @CenDemTech]

🚨🚨 @CenDemTech condemns the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org as profoundly misguided, with devastating impact for the right to #privacy of people seeking reproductive care.
* Release: https://t.co/RifaKANFeB
* Ruling: https://t.co/1zr4TRXN7t

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

@David_MSullivan @dtspartnership Congrats @David_MSullivan!

[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

I would also like to note that the court’s language is at time … bizarre

[Ryan Sims @ryangsims]

elementary schoolers got to submit names for Colorado's new snow plows and damn

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

I feel seen. #TogetherRoyal https://t.co/j6mZz6lpgU

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

@David_MSullivan @astepanovich Yes, please! I'm vaxxed and haven't made it to Boulder yet, so whenever the timing is right, I'll be there.

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

@astepanovich @David_MSullivan I am! I moved here a few months back. Good company in Colorado :)

[Liz Woolery @LizWoolery]

@astepanovich @David_MSullivan I've never had plants die so fast as they did when I first moved to Denver. I seriously underestimated how much the dry air would affect them. I say this like I've learned my lesson but TBH it's still a bit hit or miss for me. They all thrived in the DC humidity.

[Megan Smith @megan_kristin]

First Amendment plates coming down on the Newseum.