Kat Timpf: Everything Is Funny and Nothing Is Sacred
The Fox libertarian on why joking around is a vital form of free expression
The Fox libertarian on why joking around is a vital form of free expression
Reason broke the story of activist Zyahna Bryant baselessly accusing a fellow student of racism. It's still wrong to cancel her.
As the culture war permeates American life, combatants set their sights on the ways we express ourselves.
One Montreal restaurant was cited for having "fish and chips" on its menu.
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The appeals court narrowed a preliminary injunction against such meddling but confirmed the threat that it poses to freedom of speech.
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The Fifth Circuit was right to rule it was illegal for the federal government to coerce social media firms, but wrong to uphold a Texas law requiring those firms to post material they prefer to keep out.
Recent Supreme Court cases suggest that both the left and the right are already repositioning themselves.
Procedure, soundbites, popular views, and more combined to create legally unfounded memes.
Recent reporting doesn't materially undermine, and could even strengthen, the case for standing.
Even at schools with solid speech policies, many students show little tolerance for opposing political beliefs.
The Colorado governor finds common ground with many libertarians. But does he really stand for more freedom?
The Court had ample reason to find a "credible threat" of enforcement, consistent with existing case law.
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Police also wrongly cited him for "improper hand signal" after the man flipped them off.
Seven-layer stacks, messy anecdotes, and the conservative case for net neutrality.
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An important question, whether the judge orders lawyers to be trained on religious liberty by the Alliance Defending Freedom, on transgender rights by Lambda Legal, or on race discrimination law by the ACLU.
Is the legal left beginning to adopt a hawkish attitude toward standing?
"The opportunity to think for ourselves and to express those thoughts freely is among our most cherished liberties," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.
So concludes a federal judge, issuing a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the law.
One Justice dissents, with a detailed opinion.
A N.J. judge has thrown out the lawsuit, on the narrow grounds that, even if the newspaper deliberately discouraged people from attending the group's charity gala, the N.J. Law Against Discrimination doesn't apply to charity galas.
"The concept of using 'p**** so wet' as a rhetorical device in a song is neither original nor unique to Plaintiff, and, in any event, '[c]opyright does not protect ideas or themes.'"
"Science should have no agenda other than a relentless pursuit of the truth.... With DEI, we're expected to search out racism within science curriculum, and it's just not there," says professor Bill Blanken.
The district is still censoring the Gadsden flag patch as well as Second Amendment advocacy, according to FIRE.
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By guaranteeing five basic internet rights.
There are already people responsible for regulating children’s online activity: parents and guardians.
a federal judge held today.
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Even outcasts should be able to subsist on their own land.