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Ari Cohn, Tyler Tone

Semi-coherent rambling about First Amendment law, tech policy, and terrible ideas.

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  • Ari Cohn

    First Amendment & defamation lawyer. Lead Counsel, Tech Policy @ Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Past: TechFreedom; Department of Education; FIRE x2; BigLaw. Views and opinions are my own.

  • Tyler Tone

    I write about free speech issues in tech and telecom for FIRE, as well as some other things from time to time. I try to gather a good bit of that here.

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