"As Plaintiffs point out, both Black Voices Matter and Francis Howell Families are organizations with viewpoints on board actions, and both organizations call for policy changes, but Defendants only ban references to Francis Howell Families during the patron comment period."
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As long as there have been laws, there have been attempts to silence people.
A town attorney threatened a local activist with a frivolous lawsuit so she would stop criticizing him. She complied, and he sued her anyway.
Dean Baquet played a leading role in two of modern journalism's turns for the worse.
Plus: The roots of the housing crisis, the U.S. Supreme Court reconsiders Miranda warnings, a judge halts Kentucky's abortion law, and more...
This war, like all wars, will invigorate the state and be deadly to liberty.
Today's decision in City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising makes this test somewhat fuzzier.
The @LibsOfTikTok controversy brings up this question, though the broader question is an old one.
Plus: A short debate on intellectual property
"I think it's very important for there to be an exclusive arena for free speech," says Musk.
$43 billion takeover bid reveals knowledge-class anxieties over free expression
The libertarian vision of an 'uncontrolled' internet is not the dream of dictators.
The same logic, of course, would apply to criticism of other countries and governments, such as China, Russia, the Palestinian government, and more.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is taking advantage of the state's lax laws that make it easier to file frivolous lawsuits intended to quell speech.
Substack's Hamish McKenzie on censorship, discourse, and Joe Rogan.
So a federal district court held, reversing an earlier magistrate judge ruling on this point; the court also rejected the view that the Free Press Clause only protects "members of the press."
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.
Some thoughts for me responding to Rick Hasen's, in a Balkinization symposium on Rick's new book, "Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It"
Several German states have announced they will prosecute those who publicly display the letter Z in support of Russia.
The ACLU of Northern California is suing to overturn the ordinance.
Protections for open communication require more than the commitment of a single person.
The less of our lives we allow to be put to a vote, the better.
For most of the past decade-plus, those complaining the loudest about corporate participation in politics have been Democrats.
A regulatory filing indicates that Musk is now the company's largest shareholder.
"They should be paying us for burnishment—not suing us for tarnishment."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is leading his nation a just cause. But we should not allow him to impose censorship and emigration bans in the process. A nation fighting for freedom must not undermine it.
No, says the Appeals Court of Massachusetts: "We take this opportunity to reiterate that, where a c. 258E order is sought on the basis of speech alone, the plaintiff must prove that the speech rose to the level of true threats or fighting words and not merely that it was 'harassing, intimidating, or abusive in the colloquial sense.'"
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