A debate between two Volokh bloggers. Orin S. Kerr writes: My friend Stewart Baker discussed his recent interview of me about my new book, but let me add two important links. First, you can listen to our podcast debate about the book here. And just as importantly, you can buy the book here. Source: Reason.
Category: Online
Nebraska Bans Minor Social Media Accounts Without Parental Consent
Lindsey Tonsager, Jenna Zhang, Natalie Maas, and Divya Bhat of Covington and Burling write: On May 20, 2025, Nebraska Governor Pillen approved LB 383, which imposes a broad range of restrictions on minors’ access online. In addition to a ban on artificial intelligence-generated child pornography, the law also requires parental controls over minor social media accounts. …
Home Pregnancy Test Company Wins Dismissal of Pixel Wiretapping Suit
Divya Bhat & Matthew Verdin of Covington and Burling write: Health-related websites are increasingly targeted with wiretapping suits if they use pixels or other third-party technologies to power their websites. A few months ago, a California court dismissed on multiple grounds one such suit challenging the use of website pixels by Clearblue, a company that…
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
Matthew Gault reports: Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active. Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s…