Officials allegedly retaliated against a professor who expressed politically controversial statements about the best treatments for gender dysphoria among youth.
Glenn Greenwald discusses Brazil's ban of X, the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and the global crackdown on speech on Just Asking Questions.
"A couple million times a year, people use guns defensively," says economist and author John Lott.
Social media poses problems far more serious than misinformation campaigns, but solutions consistent with the First Amendment are not clear.
His "Revisionist History" podcast can amount to historical fiction
Prof. Allan Josephson (formerly of the University of Louisville medical school) claims his contract wasn't renewed because "he expressed his thoughts on treating childhood gender dysphoria during a panel discussion sponsored by a conservative think tank [the Heritage Foundation]."
Each candidate made some good points about reproductive freedom and each told some major whoppers.
The best practitioners of the freedom of speech are those who do not assume that everyone who disagrees with them operates from bad motives.
Often, the best thing for lawmakers to do is nothing.
Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.
Plus: Columbia's outside agitators, E.U. antitrust crackdown prevails, and more...
The ruling says some restrictions on guns in "sensitive places" are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others.
Plaintiff had alleged that being publicly identified would put him at risk of physical harm.
The opinion includes some interesting discussion of defamation by implication.
The final article from the Information as Medicine symposium.
Go after bribes and espionage, but leave mere speech alone.
An article from the Information as Medicine symposium.
Some of the hardest free speech issues arise when a university argues that restrictions are justified by its "educational mission."
But he loses: "As a result of Godlewski's guilty plea to 'inappropriate text [m]essages' and 'contact' ..., as set forth in the Affidavit of Probable Cause quoting the offending text messages admitting and memorializing a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old minor, Godlewski is collaterally estopped from denying his participation in [the] sexual relationship ...."
The survey of over 50,000 students also found that 37 percent of students said it was "sometimes" or "always" acceptable to shout down a speaker, up from 31 percent last year.
The case is another example of stretching criminal laws to hold parents accountable for their children's violence.
An article from the Information as Medicine symposium.
claims that someone has engaged in specific conduct may be factual assertions and therefore potentially libelous.
Law students: Take that Choice of Law (often called Conflicts of Laws) course your law school offers; it can be tremendously important.
The former president's attempts to put a positive spin on the term are consistent with his alarmingly authoritarian instincts.
The Democratic nominee has favored policing online speech. Would a future Harris administration defend free expression?
The chaplain's post "discuss[ed] 'how God designed each person as male or female, and that sex is immutable'" and "stated it is unfair to allow males to compete in women's sports."
The mandate required platforms to, among other things, report to the state "how the terms of service define and address (a) hate speech or racism; (b) extremism or radicalization; (c) disinformation or misinformation; (d) harassment; and (e) foreign political interference, as well as statistics on content that was flagged by the social media company as belonging to any of the categories."
"The Community Guidelines' prohibitions of, inter alia, 'homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, racism, or any other forms of oppressive beliefs or behaviors,' 'name-calling,' and 'disrespect' are prohibitions against ideas that offend, and therefore discriminate on the basis of viewpoint in violation of the First Amendment."
The ruling concludes that the government failed to show an Illinois ban is "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
One of the functions of the First Amendment is to create a kind of arms control agreement: With respect to censorship, all sides agree to lay down their arms.
Last week’s sedition conviction is yet another step backward for press freedom.
Officials pursue an anti-liberty agenda through unofficial pressure and foreign regulators.
Plus: A listener asks the editors, when it is right to revolt to stop repeated miscarriages of justice?
Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
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