Kanye's Suspension Shows Musk Twitter Might Look a Lot Like…Old Twitter
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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.
Civil liberties groups say Adams' plan violates constitutional rights protecting people with mental illness from being confined against their will simply for existing.
Last week, a Kansas judge halted the enforcement of a law requiring a doctor to be in the same room as a patient taking abortion pills—a move hailed by abortion advocates as an important step to increase medication abortion access in the state.
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."
Congress should not forget that they can legislate in response to Supreme Court rulings.
Given the harms caused, lessons should be learned from China’s people, not its government.
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.
The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.
If an order had been issued, it would have expired months before the attack unless police successfully sought an extension.
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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.
This surveillance would be unconstitutional—and there’s no reason to believe it will make anyone safer.
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"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."
While we often spend Thanksgiving remembering a different set of Puritan settlers, the religious, freedom-loving Roger Williams is an apt hero for the more liberty-minded.
The state's ban applies unless the property owner posts a sign allowing firearms or otherwise gives "express consent."
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
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."
The ACLU of Oregon is calling on other state governors to follow suit.
[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]
By consenting to Qatar's illiberal policies for residents and guests alike, FIFA has further besmirched its already tainted reputation.
"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.
The Atlas of Surveillance lets us monitor the agencies that snoop on the public.
Like the Olympics, the World Cup is rife with human rights abuses and glorification of authoritarian host regimes. It doesn't have to be that way.