But the Arizona Court of Appeals just reversed, concluding that speech about a person generally isn't "harassment," even if unwanted speech directed to the person may be.
The ACLU’s wise decision to defend the NRA in NRA v. Vullo bears fruit.
British law allows local governments to enact absurdly censorious orders limiting "anti-social" behavior.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
The government will prevent prisoners from getting TEXAS LETTERS, an anthology about experiences with solitary confinement.
Jane and I discuss calls to restrict misinformation, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to Hurricane Helene.
The former president's authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages.
Due to North Carolina's lack of an anti-SLAPP law, the defendants will have to defend themselves in court.
The U.N. has documented killings, forced disappearances, and torture.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
Tyron McAlpin's lawyers say he couldn't hear the commands of the officers when they jumped out of a police cruiser and immediately attacked him.
Free and online, Oct. 18, from U. Wyo. Firearms Research Center.
against the online critic who first posted the allegations, but not against CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), which echoed them.
Two Harvard undergrads give us a glimpse of the surveillance future.
For more than three decades, the Institute for Justice has shown that economic freedom and private property are essential safeguards for ordinary Americans.
Priscilla Villarreal's case is about whether certain reporters have more robust free speech rights than others.
Plaintiff had argued that defendants' publicizing the religious court's statement "serves as a form of social pressure, calling on the community to shun or ostracize the individual until they comply with the court's demands."
The good news is that schools won't be forced to stock Trump-endorsed Bibles. The bad news is that they're still being forced to supply Bibles.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
An interview with sex work researcher Tara Burns.
Without a warrant and specific proof of incriminating evidence, police should never be allowed past your phone’s lock screen.
Israel is getting U.S. troops and Saudi Arabia is getting billions of dollars' worth of American weapons.
Plus: California tries to punish Musk, China's economic recovery, and more...
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Few problems can be resolved by grandstanding politicians threatening new penalties.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
Mason Murphy says Officer Michael Schmitt violated his rights by punishing him for constitutionally protected speech.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
A backdoor for anybody is a backdoor for everybody.
A new study finds that conservatives are especially likely to share information from sources that a "politically balanced" sample of Republicans and Democrats deemed untrustworthy.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
At its core, the oft-denigrated decision revolved around whether the government can censor information leading up to an election.
South Carolina bans all media interviews with incarcerated people, a policy the state's ACLU chapter says is the most restrictive in the country and infringes on its First Amendment rights.
Journalists should be interested in interrogating this contradiction, should the 2024 presidential candidate continue giving interviews.
at least as those terms had been interpreted by the school board, holds the Eleventh Circuit.
The Florida Department of Health sent a cease and desist order to a Florida news station after it aired an ad claiming that women with cancer would be unable to obtain abortions in the state.
Reason's new documentary is now streaming on the video platform CiVL. I hope you'll watch.
The introduction to a symposium reprinted from Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Both presidential candidates (and their running mates) seem confused about the constraints imposed by the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court is considering whether a rule targeting "ghost guns" exceeds the agency's statutory authority.
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