Co-Author of San Francisco's E-Cigarette Ban Wants the FDA to Silence His Opponents
Supervisor Shamann Walton thinks he can use restrictions on commercial speech to suppress political speech.
Supervisor Shamann Walton thinks he can use restrictions on commercial speech to suppress political speech.
Conservatives deploy state power to go after speech they don't like.
Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.
Conservatives who argue that the video platform is constrained by the First Amendment are forsaking their constitutional principles.
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The same First Amendment principles that apply to the president also apply to the congresswoman.
The move would violate the First Amendment.
Trying to get the government involved in what sort of videos online platforms promote or hide is going to end badly.
It would essentially be a Fairness Doctrine for the internet.
Companies should forced neither to help spread offensive speech nor to suppress it.
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The presidential hopeful alleges the company violated her First Amendment rights when it suspended her campaign advertising site for 6 hours.
The pundit made the claim at a Senate hearing on allegations of tech censorship against conservatives.
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
The idea that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that enabled open and free speech for everyone has been turned on its head.
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New Orleans can't use zoning regulations to decide what counts as artistic expression.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) has proposed a dreadful bill that would give the government control of internet content. He thinks the only reason anyone could be opposed is because they've been bought off.
The state's Liquor and Cannabis Board changed its policy after Hempfest and two marijuana retailers challenged it on constitutional grounds.
Countries across the world tackle political misinformation with authoritarian censorship.
From Sohrab Ahmari to Josh Hawley, what the new right really wants is to squelch free expression.
A 6-3 ruling says that the First Amendment protects brand names that are considered “immoral” or “scandalous.”
The artist wanted students to learn about Washington's flaws. How traumatizing.
I shouted out, who killed online freedom of speech? When after all, it was you and me.
The People v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti explains how America embraced free speech—and how we're ready to throw it away.
The Seattle festival's organizers argue that banning signs referring to state-licensed cannabusinesses violates the state and federal constitutions.
Censorship inevitably ends up being used to protect the powerful from criticism.
The "blogfather" once touted the internet as the antidote to Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media. Now he wants the feds to crack down on social media.
The senator asked for a private business to squash a citizen's communication, and they did it, though they don't say they did it for him.
Social media platforms and governments are "voluntarily" teaming up to ban "violent extremist content." What could go wrong?
The supposed plague of misleading and harmful information on the internet is nothing new, nor is governments' desire to muzzle anybody who says inconvenient things.
Resist when politicians declare that speech (even radical speech) is a “threat to our democracy.”
Even more worrying: New Zealand's leading media outlets are self-censoring coverage of the Christchurch mass shooting.
Today it's creators, not cops, who want to banish R. Crumb, onetime king of the comics underground.
Iconic British foods like Christmas pudding and strawberries and cream get censored.
Right after 290 people were killed in a series of Easter Sunday bombings
Subreddits on sexual themes will also be banned from running ads.
Censorship continues to be about empowering those in charge.