So holds a (nonprecedential) California Court of Appeal decision in the Jenni Rivera heirs vs. Univision case, though the decision is narrowly tied to these particular facts.
"Students are expected to attend classes. If they fail to do so without a valid excuse, their absence is duly-noted and appropriate action is taken. But the teachers at the center of this controversy expect different treatment."
"An elaborate investigative and enforcement regime designed to restrain, deter, suppress, and punish speech."
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 Trump appointee warns that "little would be left of our First Amendment liberties" if cops could punish people who irk them by finding a legal reason to bust them.
Sound words from a federal district court decision handed down last year.
So holds a district court, in a copyright case brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses against a Reddit commenter.
The Utah Supreme Court upheld a six-month suspension without pay, based in part (though not entirely) on these remarks; the judge has a history of past discipline on other grounds as well.
Episode 4 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
In the best of all possible worlds, such actions wouldn't be necessary. In the current climate, boycotting social media might spark a return to a robust marketplace of ideas.
Don't believe the Justice Department when it reassures journalists that the WikiLeaks founder is uniquely guilty of violating the Espionage Act.
Plus: Naomi Wolf has no clue (again), gun site wins Section 230 case, and more...
Under the government's theory in some of the charges, any reporter who knowingly prints certain kinds of government secrets could equally be prosecuted.
"I want to be clear that the comments I made are not indicative of who I am or who I've become in the years since."
"In this day and age, one must accept the possibility that one might be recorded in public. That possibility heightens when one chooses to engage in vitriolic behavior."
Jon Goldsmith called a local deputy a "stupid sum bitch" on Facebook, so the deputy's superior charged Goldsmith with writing a threatening statement.
Tor, a leading service for anonymously accessing the Internet, is shielded by 47 U.S.C. § 230.
A Savannah, Georgia, law that required testing and licensing of tour guides is found unconstitutional.
The federal attempt to take the patch uniquely combines free speech violations and asset forfeiture.
Plus: An old drug warrior learns new tricks, Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage, and more...
Social media platforms and governments are "voluntarily" teaming up to ban "violent extremist content." What could go wrong?
The AFL-CIO's Twitter account appears to endorse a workers' revolution.
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.
A new book reaches the right conclusions on telecom policy but suffers from anti-market myopia.
No ifs, ands, or butts about it.
Co-founder Chris Hughes' call for antitrust action is vainglorious and misguided.
"If this order were a Yelp review rather than a court ruling, it might read as follows: 'This attorney tried to persuade the court to enter an injunction by citing an obviously invalid trial court order—zero stars.'"
That's notwithstanding the view of Lake City (Florida) police, who arrested and charged Shane Dillon for display this sticker.
“I don't know who to believe. Why don't I just go there and see for myself?"
Some students at the University of the Arts want the firebrand feminist fired. Where did they get the idea they should be picking faculty?
Resist when politicians declare that speech (even radical speech) is a “threat to our democracy.”
Private property rights, public squares, "dangerous" speech, and pre-regulatory suck-ups, all debated on the Reason Podcast.
A district court decision from several years ago, which I just ran across.
Even more worrying: New Zealand's leading media outlets are self-censoring coverage of the Christchurch mass shooting.
These schools are seriously committed to civil and diverse debate.
So a federal district court held Monday, and concluded that this principle was well-established enough to defeat a qualified immunity defense.
So the Wisconsin Supreme Court held yesterday, reversing a Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision.
Can a court block multiple statements that seem to come from several people, but that were actually all posted by one person?
The group takes its First Amendment crusade to a public park in Minnesota.
Director Penny Lane chronicles the rise of the Satanic Temple, a group that combines theatrical stunts with political activism.
An interesting decision from the Fifth Circuit, allowing a negligence claim to go forward against organizer Deray Mckesson; the court's reasoning relies heavily on the illegal nature of the protest.
"Students were just screaming that we were trying to 'kill them.'"
Just filed yesterday, and I think it should prevail.
So holds a District Court decision, though stressing the "may be."
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