Babylon Bee Won't Back Down Over Trans Joke Twitter Ban
Kyle Mann, the Christian satire site's editor, also talks Biden vs. Trump, and why he saves his deepest burns for mega-pastors like Joel Osteen.
Kyle Mann, the Christian satire site's editor, also talks Biden vs. Trump, and why he saves his deepest burns for mega-pastors like Joel Osteen.
The author of The Master and Margarita faced a bewildering mixture of rewards and censorship.
Ban on mandatory training of certain race topics “is a naked viewpoint-based regulation on speech.”
Billboards remind state residents that controversial speech enjoys First Amendment protection.
A Florida woman has been threatened with fines for giving tips without the proper occupational licensing.
The innocuously-titled Online Safety Bill threatens citizens' rights to privacy and to speak freely.
"Spazzing on that ass" does nothing whatsoever to harm people with cerebral palsy.
"The fact-checking industry has become a partisan arbiter of political disputes," notes Phil Magness.
Deplatforming controversial content is perfectly legal—and often counterproductive.
Plus: DeSantis threatens Miami restaurant over drag performances, Hawley blasts Amazon acquisition that might lower health care prices, and more…
Bitcoin's creator designed it to be radically transparent, but the tools exist to make it as hard to trace as cash.
Antiabortion activists are the new Anthony Comstocks.
An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.
Social media platforms may marginally support free speech. Government censors are trying to stop that.
A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.
Are “extremely over-sensitive, Twitter activist people" ruining literature?
Looking back at how abortion advertising bans played out last century may give us some idea what the future holds for speech about abortion.
World journalists have been quicker than Americans to see danger in prosecuting the Wikileaks founder.
The WikiLeaks founder faces espionage charges for publishing classified U.S. information, a prosecution with serious implications for all our First Amendment protections.
They shot and killed a man they were trying to evict. Doesn’t the public have the right to know who they are?
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Politicians respond to often unfounded fears with aggressive laws that interfere with individual and family choices.
"The platform's choice to release this special now, during a wave of unprecedented anti-trans legislation, is unconscionable," according to Vox.
A new ruling says Twitter and Facebook are not “common carriers" and thus cannot be forced to carry politicians' messages.
In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.
Plus: Elon Musk's plans for Twitter, officials want to tax NFTs, and more...
The alarm aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board is understandable given the administration’s broader assault on messages it considers dangerous.
$43 billion takeover bid reveals knowledge-class anxieties over free expression
More than 25 million people remain locked down in Shanghai, with Guangzhou—a city of 18 million—looking primed to follow.
Sex, money, and the future of online free speech
When a college sophomore mocked Young Americans for Freedom for its stance on trans athletes, the conservative group ran to the university to file a complaint.
It's not supporting “parents’ rights” to censor topics at private schools that families decide to send their children to.
Reporting that makes Black Lives Matter look bad should not be covered up by social media companies.
Left-leaning outlets and tech giants tried to label them disinformation—until they no longer could.
The ACLU of Northern California is suing to overturn the ordinance.
The vague wording of the bill has led to a culture war fight about what the text means, and that’s never good for the First Amendment.
Honk Honk HODL raised more than $1 million of bitcoin for the Canadian truckers. About two-thirds of it got to them.
A new bill would alter state law to remove an educational exception for disseminating works the community deems "harmful" to minors.
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