Self-Cancellation, Deplatforming, and Censorship
A taxonomy of cancel culture.
In June, police stormed the offices of Apple Daily, one of the last pro-democracy newspapers and an unapologetic defender of Hong Kong's autonomy.
While libertarians will be inclined to applaud some of the new laws, others exemplify familiar conservative excesses.
Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson may face accountability for her official actions in the Ahmaud Arbery investigation.
By and large, those schemes (like Texas’s SB 8 liability for abortion providers) must be fought by raising the Constitution as a defense in a civil lawsuit—not through preenforcement challenges.
The same legal ruse can be used against gun rights and other civil liberties, not just against abortion.
Denizens of the popular online forum protested the spread of COVID misinformation, but the company rightly wouldn't cave to their demands. It still cracked down on 55 subreddits in the end.
Plus: More bad news for free speech online, Fauci on booster shots, and more...
A federal judge says an anti-porn group's suit against Twitter can move forward, in a case that could portend a dangerous expansion of how courts define "sex trafficking."
"Governor McKinney had no power to contract away the Commonwealth's essential power of freedom of government speech in perpetuity by simply signing the 1890 Deed."
in a case brought by a woman who was trying to document her claims that a school affiliated with a local Islamic center was overusing a local park.
Officials look for scapegoats to blame as the working force suffers burnout.
The decision is wrong, but consistent with previous precedent. Yet it also threatens to create a road map for circumventing constitutional rights. Fortunately, the latter can be prevented.
Plus: Millennial myth busting, McFlurry madness, and more...
Blankenship had been convicted of a misdemeanor related to a deadly disaster at a mine his company owned; Trump, Jr. had erroneously labeled him a "felon"; a judge concluded that there's enough evidence that Trump, Jr. knew the statement was false, or at least likely false.
Because the Supreme Court so far has not intervened, post-heartbeat abortions are now illegal in the Lone Star State.
Compared to pandemic employment shifts in other fields, law enforcement numbers are fairly stable.
The agency returns to a research area where it has caused much controversy in the past.
"The pandemic's wrongest man" can likely profit from martyrdom.
Plus: Kids got more obese during the pandemic, how Section 230 protects gun rights, and more...
Even supporters of the law should recognize the dangers of using enforcement as punishment.
The court rejects the argument that publicity about the lawsuit might taint jury pool, and "has imposed a deep emotional burden upon [church's] current members, imposes a possibility of some clients of the church's weekly meal, food pantry, counseling programs, or other services withdrawing their participation [and] imposes a possibility of loss of donors."
A sharp departure from the Trump administration's approach
Supporting the cause because your "side" went down is not a principled position.
"You have no choice in the matter."
Stopping the import of Russian ammo is just pretending to do something noble.
A federal judge concluded that Powell and eight other pro-Trump lawyers who challenged Michigan's election results made frivolous arguments and treated evidence recklessly.
The university shut down a speech by noted economist Arthur Laffer because of organized heckling by “progressives.”
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