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.
Will a thirst to punish Silicon Valley destroy our liberty?
Maybe people are just playing to escape all the Brexit news?
Under pressure, democracies have a nasty habit of acting like panicked crowds.
Plus: Senators move to end warrantless NSA spying and the "Paycheck Fairness Act" passes the House.
Do you have a license to link to that story? Will your sexy Tinder photo get confused with a celebrity's?
With big tech helping government officials to control the sharing of information, we need to support alternatives to undermine their censorious efforts.
Nobody in the media should be supporting an elected official trying to control what speech online platforms allow.
There's no room for errors and online platforms face huge fines, likely encouraging overly broad takedowns.
The media are supposed to fight censorship. But to protect their financial interests, some European publishers want to mandate it.
As the lawsuit against FOSTA hits appeals court, three essays about the law that everyone should read.
Arkansas Sen. Jason Rapert learns what the Streisand Effect is all about.
Big publishers want new sources of revenue. But trying to force license fees for linking will backfire.
The Cato Institute and Institute for Justice team up to fight for the right to publish a book attacking behavior by the SEC.
Author and sex worker Maggie McNeill was suspended from Twitter Tuesday for a hyperbolic comment about burning the White House down.
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
A lawsuit argues that the state's elaborate restrictions, ostensibly aimed at preventing underage vaping, violate the right to freedom of speech.
New rules ban erotic art, talk of shared sexual interests, kink groups, and anything that "encourages sexual encounters between adults."
Research shows a fifth of its users seek out sexual images. But the sharing site is now part of a massive media conglomerate.
Killing Section 230 would only lead web platforms to ban even more speech.
As Facebook's supposed ideological allies unfriend the social media giant, the tech industry is learning that there are no permanent allegiances in politics.
Kelly says the social media site offered no explanation, which would violate its own policies.
Clicking the "wrong" link can get you interrogated by the authorities-and the situation may soon get worse.
What should the culture of free speech, free expression, and ownership look like on our social media platforms?
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
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