Did You Ask the FCC If You Can Make That Joke?
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On the latest episode of Free Media, Amber Duke and I discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, cancel culture, and political violence.
It’s mainly praise for Trump: “President Trump secured the greatest personal and political achievement in American history.”
Rand Paul, who called for "a crackdown on people" who celebrated the assassination, was less careful in distinguishing between private and government action.
Under current First Amendment jurisprudence, more targeted harassment means it's more constitutional to fire a government worker.
The attorney general is now getting called out by fellow conservatives.
Freedom of speech cannot reliably protect conservatives unless it also protects people they despise.
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, who once opposed government jawboning, now says people should be banned from both social media and public life over their posts.
We should welcome renunciations of violence from those who disagree with Kirk, and dispute nonsense across the political spectrum.
Once a left-wing fetish, the heckler’s veto has gained conservative adherents.
There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.
The Irish comedian's arrest by British authorities is an outrage.
Over the past two decades, scores of business owners across the nation have sought to refuse services for same-sex weddings, an SMU Law School study finds
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The president is the last person who should confuse protected speech with incitement to violence.
Age verification laws are already coming for Americans’ access to free speech.
Obviously drag shows are protected by the First Amendment.
Thin-skinned MAGA can dish it out, but can't take mockery.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is seeking an injunction that would protect noncitizens at The Stanford Daily from arrest and removal because of their published work.
Michael Weitzel was ejected for violating the club’s fan code of conduct, which prohibits “threatening, abusive, or discriminatory" symbols and language.
Joshua Rohrer's dog, Sunshine, ran away and was later hit and killed by a car.
X has begun restricting content related to Gaza for its U.K. users, and Reddit has implemented age-verification measures to view posts about cigars.
The campus' settlement with the federal government is bound to create free speech headaches.
Occupational licensing can be useless, harmful—and even a threat to free speech.
As a minority FCC member during the Bush administration, Carr condemned government interference with newsroom decisions.
A federal court concluded the official was entitled to qualified immunity in a case that united two unlikely allies.
Chairman Brendan Carr thinks his agency should strive to ensure that news coverage is fair and balanced—a role precluded by the First Amendment.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has placed minor restraints on the government’s ability to impose gag orders on secret subpoenas issued to tech companies.
The STOP HATE Act wants social media platforms to report their moderation policies and outcomes to the government. And it’s not the only censorial measure Rep. Josh Gottheimer wants.
Politicians' interest in controlling the content you see shifts from public media to social media.
When even Keith Olbermann is providing a much-needed sanity check, it says something.
The investigation comes only two days after a federal judge cast doubt on the Trump administration’s argument in Harvard’s lawsuit over federal funding.
The government's gaslighting strategy suggests that federal officials are not confident about the constitutionality of punishing students for expressing anti-Israel views.
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Norma Nazario blames her son's death on social media algorithms.
Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.
Recent protests at MLS matches and the ensuing bans for some fans have put the league in a delicate position, balancing tolerance and enforcement.
The lawsuit says attorneys have been repeatedly turned away from the detention camp and had virtual meetings mysteriously canceled.
This was not an attack on the free press.
Censorship tends to blow up in the faces of the censors.
The Florida Immigrant Coalition's new billboards were restored less than a day after being taken down, but why were they removed in the first place?
Judge James C. Ho recently described a troubling phenomenon on the 5th Circuit and the government abuse it enables.
The prosecution, the latest example of local attempts to criminalize news reporting, is blatantly at odds with First Amendment principles.
AI chatbots failed to "rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding antisemitism," in a way that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey likes.
She did her best to manage Elon Musk, protect free speech on X, and appease advertisers.
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