Russia Bans All Public Pro-LGBT Speech
Taking “Don’t Say Gay” to the next level.
by Jacob Mchangama (Justitia), Heini Skorini (Univ. of Faroe Islands) & Mathias Meier (Justitia).
A website designer asks SCOTUS to let her eschew work that contradicts her opposition to gay marriage.
The D.C. Circuit rejects a First Amendment challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anticircumvention and antitrafficking provisions.
The press pass is for election-related events connected to Maricopa County's ongoing ballot counting; the panel concluded that The Gateway Pundit was likely to succeed on its claim that the denial was unconstitutionally based on its viewpoints.
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
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A Democratic member of Congress laments how Twitter handled the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop.
Plus: The editors consider a listener question on the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.
"The state of New York can't turn bloggers into Big Brother, but it's trying to do just that," said FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner.
A million hypotheticals bloom in arguments over when and where the government may compel speech.
The Twitter Files are interesting but contain few true surprises. A mix of incompetence and partisanship got the site in trouble.
The "free speech absolutist" is maintaining some content restrictions while loosening others.
"[T]here is increasingly no place for social conservatives in many large law firms."
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It's a private company. Its owner can do what he chooses, even if it seems crazy.
At a dangerous moment for the free exchange of ideas, civil libertarians can tally a win.
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Elon Musk's rescission of the platform's prior policy, which forbade dissent from official guidance, is consistent with his promise of lighter moderation.
And their team wanted nothing to do with politics.
"Consider that—as reported in the local paper—several students were so distraught over this event and afraid for their 'physical and emotional safety' that they claimed they could not even be inside Green Hall at the same time as the speaker. Perhaps this should alert us to an institutional failure to cultivate the norms, habits, and skills necessary to the task of lawyering."
Too many Western governments want to follow in the footsteps of authoritarians when it comes to tech privacy.
to continue with his appeal, holds the Second Circuit; because he didn't do so, the appeal was dismissed.
The president has urged the Chinese government to respect the rights of anti-lockdown demonstrators. He actively encouraged the Canadian government to end the trucker protests.
While "the 26 words that created the internet" have been under fire from both sides, two groups argue that the 1996 law is essential to the future of abortion rights.
"Gimelstob and Kaplan were friends for a while, but their relationship soured when Kaplan got upset because Gimelstob did not show up to his birthday party."
EU officials threaten to make their restrictive content rules a global standard.
The state is threatening to punish doctors whose advice deviates from the "scientific consensus."
[I asked Prof. Alan Rozenshtein (University of Minnesota) to write a post about Mastodon and one particular recent controversy related to it, and he very kindly agreed. -EV]
"in a suit over alleged pressure on social media firms to censor posts on topics like Covid-19 vaccines and election fraud."
So holds the Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court, rejecting a First Amendment defense.