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Brent Skorup Profile picture
Brent Skorup
@bskorup
Constitutional, media, and tech law + miscellany. Research Fellow at the Cato Institute's Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. Former college wrestler.
Apr 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Big 4th Amendment case from the Colorado Supreme Court, People v. Seymour.

Police obtained suspect's Google search history from Google.

Court: "users own their Google content"—not Google. Police copying the suspect's data was a 4th Amendment "seizure." casetext.com/case/people-v-…

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Image Court says: "Indeed, Google's licensing agreement makes clear that it does not own its users' content. Instead, users own their Google content, which, according to testimony from a Google policy specialist, includes their search histories."
Jan 23, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
When people refer to the Fairness Doctrine, they're typically referring to a constellation of FCC-created broadcast content rules & policies—including the Fairness Doctrine proper, Zapple Doctrine, Mayflower Doctrine, equal time rule, anti-slanting rule, & personal attack rule. There are differences between them but in the heyday of FCC content regulations, 1940s to 1970s, activists, regulators, and politicians who wanted to shut down programming cited multiple rules because the rules overlapped and the effect was the same—get programming off the air.