Censorship

Civil Liberties

The Mystery of Violence

Expanded regulation of TV content faces insoluble practical and constitutional problems.

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2007 11:54 AM

Civil Liberties

Even Satellite Not Safe for Saucy Jocks

Brian Doherty | 5.15.2007 9:23 PM

Civil Liberties

Laws Against Advertising Intent to Discriminate: Who Do They Help?

Brian Doherty | 5.15.2007 5:26 PM

Civil Liberties

Indecency, Not Violence, Offends on TV (Caution: Nude Turtle Action Below)

Nick Gillespie | 5.11.2007 10:01 AM

Civil Liberties

Gillespie on Talk of the Nation Re: TV Violence, Today at 3.38PM ET

Nick Gillespie | 5.2.2007 2:42 PM

Civil Liberties

New Crackdown on Milblogging

Jesse Walker | 5.2.2007 2:40 PM

Civil Liberties

Why the FCC Violence Report Sucks in Depth

Nick Gillespie | 5.2.2007 9:14 AM

Civil Liberties

Censors for Free Speech

Jack Valenti's legacy

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2007 12:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Parents Adrift on an Angry Sea

The FCC's misbegotten report on video violence

Kerry Howley | 4.27.2007 3:18 PM

Civil Liberties

Jack Valenti, 1921-2007

Jesse Walker | 4.27.2007 2:23 PM

Civil Liberties

The FCC Took My Cable Away

Nick Gillespie | 4.26.2007 5:40 PM

Civil Liberties

Tuning Out Free Speech

Mandating broadcast balance makes a casualty of the First Amendment.

Jesse Walker | 4.24.2007 11:27 AM

Civil Liberties

Adult Labeling on the Internet Back on Congress's Dirty Mind

Brian Doherty | 4.13.2007 3:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Imus in the Mourning

Nick Gillespie | 4.10.2007 9:13 AM

Civil Liberties

'God Saves Our Bunnies'

Jacob Sullum | 4.5.2007 1:51 PM

Policy

Lollipop Lickers

The fight against marijuana-flavored candy is a fight against pro-drug speech.

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2007 6:08 AM

Civil Liberties

Putin Takes to the Internet

Russia's censors take aim at critical websites.

Cathy Young | 4.2.2007 11:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Can Uncle Sam Save Your Innocence?

Why filters are better than laws at keeping kids away from porn

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2007 7:02 AM

Economics

Suing Yahoo for Abetting Chinese Gov't

Nick Gillespie | 3.22.2007 8:43 AM

Politics

Bongwater Into Whine

Drug warriors push broad censorship of student speech.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2007 6:08 AM

Politics

South Park Confidential

Nick Gillespie | 3.20.2007 1:07 PM

Civil Liberties

Court Decides: S & M Not Consensual

Brian Doherty | 3.6.2007 6:06 PM

Civil Liberties

If You See The Power Rangers on the TV, Kill Them![*]

Nick Gillespie | 2.16.2007 7:32 AM

Civil Liberties

Mom! Dad! Help Me! There Are Dirty Pictures on My Computer!

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2007 11:14 AM

Civil Liberties

Another in the "Can They Really Get Away With That?" File…

Brian Doherty | 2.5.2007 12:18 PM

Civil Liberties

Memory of Wardrobe Malfunction…

Nick Gillespie | 2.5.2007 8:20 AM

Policy

NIDA-Wiki Meta Moment

Radley Balko | 1.26.2007 3:19 PM

Movies

Soundbite: Narc of the Matinee

Kerry Howley | 1.1.2007 3:21 PM

Policy

You Call That a Secret?

The government bends the law to hide what it has no business hiding.

Jacob Sullum | 12.27.2006 4:19 AM

Civil Liberties

Plugging Leaks With Subpoenas

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2006 3:24 PM

Civil Liberties

One-Name Celebrities and Four-Letter Words

There's no excuse for the FCC's indecency rulings.

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2006 5:24 AM

Civil Liberties

The Parents Television Council Takes on the Motherfucking Racists

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2006 8:30 PM

Television

South Park Libertarians

Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion

Nick Gillespie and Jesse Walker | 12.5.2006 11:19 AM

Policy

Boston's Playstation-Fueled Crime Spree

Jacob Sullum | 11.20.2006 2:51 PM

Civil Liberties

Russia Says Nyet to Borat

Nick Gillespie | 11.9.2006 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

FCC: The Police

Jesse Walker | 11.8.2006 4:37 PM

Civil Liberties

Bad Press from Iraq: Not All the MSM's Fault…

Brian Doherty | 11.2.2006 4:52 PM

Policy

DMCA, Please Go Away

Brian Doherty | 11.2.2006 2:40 PM

Politics

Stark Incident! 'Skins scion sics goons on spit-taking gadfly

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.1.2006 9:48 AM

Policy

Who Killed Kenny on YouTube?

Nick Gillespie | 10.30.2006 11:27 AM

Civil Liberties

CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts

How Hollywood won a legal battle while losing a cultural war

Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2006 9:09 AM

Civil Liberties

America Gives a Shit

Was Bush's open-mic gaffe a flaming sack of good news for free speech?

Jeff Jarvis | 10.1.2006 9:52 AM

Civil Liberties

The Know-Nothing Campaign

Please don't confuse voters with information

Nick Gillespie | 9.21.2006 11:06 AM

Civil Liberties

Narc of the Matinee

Director Kirby Dick on his documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Kerry Howley | 9.15.2006 9:48 AM

Politics

Permission to Speak Freely

The "electioneering communications" ban silences interest groups when their messages matter most

Jacob Sullum | 9.6.2006 9:39 AM

Policy

Indecent Proposal

End, don't mend, TV content regulation.

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2006 11:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Stripping Cable

The war on "indecency"

Julian Sanchez | 6.5.2006 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Hustler on the Hill

Free speech and free porn

Julian Sanchez | 6.5.2006 12:00 AM