After Google refused to take down a video of him, the Kentucky senator suggested upending the legal framework undergirding the internet for three decades.
"Despite sustained criticism from all sides, Buckley's core principle persists: government cannot ration political speech."
"truth is an absolute defense."
FIRE condemned the police visit: "This blatant overreach is offensive to the First Amendment."
"The core First Amendment principles of Buckley v. Valeo endure after fifty years."
The introduction to an Institute for Free Speech symposium, which I'll be cross-posting over the next couple of weeks.
Excluding generative AI from Section 230 could stymie innovation and cut off consumers from useful tools.
The constitutionally anomalous status of broadcasting invites government meddling.
So holds a court, reversing student Guy Christensen's "disenrollment." The student also wrote, responding to the murder of two Israeli embassy employees in D.C. outside the Capital Jewish Museum, "I do not condemn the elimination of those two Zionist officials."
"I will not allow a generation of smart and capable young women to sell their bodies online," said Republican gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback.
The case helps illustrate why the legal rules surrounding when parties can litigate under pseudonyms are so important.
Every federal circuit court that has considered the issue, including the one covering Florida, has upheld a First Amendment right to monitor and record the police.
Trump's second term lurches forward, powered by monarchical authoritarianism
Mayday.Health ads that direct people to an informational website about abortion access are deceptive advertising and must be banned, the state argues. That’s unconstitutional, counters Mayday.
A federal district court rules that the case should go back to Minnesota state court, rather than being in federal court.
"The substantial public interests implicated by questions of the proper scope of Executive power and the statutory limits on access to tax information warrant public disclosure. While this case, and ... this decision, are now unsealed, the underlying Application and its supporting materials will remain under seal, at least while the investigation remains active ...."
So a Fourth Circuit panel held today, vacating the defendant's convictions from 2005.
An Eleventh Circuit panel concludes (by a 2-1 vote) that this is likely the right result.
Ten Frenchmen were given fines, jail time, and social media bans for accusing their first lady of being a pedophilic gay man.
In an interview with Reason, CNN's Scott Jennings recounts the conversation he had with the tech entrepreneur about his distaste for exorbitant government spending.
at least when the dispute is over a simple identification error./
unconstitutionally compels speech, says the Eighth Circuit federal court of appeals.
Plaintiff claims his actual offenses were a curfew violation during 2020 protests and spitting on FBI agent.
So concludes a federal district in Louisiana, disagreeing with a Ninth Circuit panel.
From a Justice Department press release as to the original forgery: "Michael Arnstein's blatant criminal scheme to exploit the authority of the federal judiciary for his company's benefit was outrageous. As Arnstein has learned, his attempts to remove negative reviews about his business from Google search results by forging a U.S. District Court judge's signature may have worked in the short term, but it also earned him nine months in a federal prison."
Creeping authoritarianism in the European Union gets pushback from an administration that has its own rocky relationship with free speech.
Presidents, legislators, and police officers were desperate to blame anyone but themselves.
So holds a majority of the Eighth Circuit federal court of appeals, sitting en banc.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s latest is an anti-tech omnibus, combining years' worth of dangerous policy ideas into one big, bad bill.
ICE Salt Lake City apparently isn't answering its phone.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "videotaping" agents was violence—but Border Patrol brought a film crew to Chicago-area raids.
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