The Folly of Government-Imposed Social Media 'Neutrality'
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
The law is an ass, cleft and all.
Aggressive asset forfeiture collides with First Amendment rights.
The president invited Republican lawmakers as well as social media stars who claim that tech giants are suppressing free speech.
The New York congresswoman's use of Twitter seems similar to the president's in constitutionally relevant ways.
New Orleans can't use zoning regulations to decide what counts as artistic expression.
The court says the "interactive space" created by his account is a public forum, meaning that the president's viewpoint discrimination violates the First Amendment.
HBO documentary explores teen’s culpability in boyfriend’s suicide.
Nicole Prause and Donald Hilton, longtime opponents on the subject of pornography, are now facing off in court.
The state's Liquor and Cannabis Board changed its policy after Hempfest and two marijuana retailers challenged it on constitutional grounds.
The government's latest moral crusade shields traffickers, empowers pimps, and undermines free speech online.
That result "may strike some as unfair," the court says, but it's what state law required at the time.
A 6-3 ruling says that the First Amendment protects brand names that are considered “immoral” or “scandalous.”
A local bakery accused the college of defamation after students launched a public campaign against the store for racial profiling. Oberlin mounted a free speech defense.
Hawley is selling it as a way to fight tech-company "bias" against Republicans. Don't believe him.
In a letter to Dame explaining why the ads had been rejected, the MTA cited longstanding rules against ads "promoting a sexually oriented business."
The president's spokeswoman is doing what she has always done on TV, unencumbered by the legal distinction between partisan pundit and executive branch employee.
Nancy Pelosi's overwrought take on Donald Trump's receptiveness to "oppo research" is hard to take seriously.
The debate about whether the killer should have been prosecuted for federal hate crimes shows how the Justice Department targets defendants based on the opinions they express.
New Jersey’s lousy craft beer rules are an affront to free speech and consumer choice
The People v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti explains how America embraced free speech—and how we're ready to throw it away.
The Seattle festival's organizers argue that banning signs referring to state-licensed cannabusinesses violates the state and federal constitutions.
The move violates the First Amendment, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Censorship inevitably ends up being used to protect the powerful from criticism.
The move is an assault on the First Amendment.
Actions speak louder than words. Trump 's labeling of the media as "the enemy of the people" is bad, but he's not breaking into reporters' homes to find leakers. That's what the San Francisco Police Department did.
"An elaborate investigative and enforcement regime designed to restrain, deter, suppress, and punish speech."
The Trump appointee warns that "little would be left of our First Amendment liberties" if cops could punish people who irk them by finding a legal reason to bust them.
The treatment of Bryan Carmody and Julian Assange reveals widespread confusion about who counts as a journalist and whether it matters.
Episode 4 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Don't believe the Justice Department when it reassures journalists that the WikiLeaks founder is uniquely guilty of violating the Espionage Act.
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Under the government's theory in some of the charges, any reporter who knowingly prints certain kinds of government secrets could equally be prosecuted.
Jon Goldsmith called a local deputy a "stupid sum bitch" on Facebook, so the deputy's superior charged Goldsmith with writing a threatening statement.
A Savannah, Georgia, law that required testing and licensing of tour guides is found unconstitutional.
The federal attempt to take the patch uniquely combines free speech violations and asset forfeiture.
Bryan Carmody refused to name the source of a leaked police report.
The supposed plague of misleading and harmful information on the internet is nothing new, nor is governments' desire to muzzle anybody who says inconvenient things.
A new book reaches the right conclusions on telecom policy but suffers from anti-market myopia.
The federal hate crime charges against John T. Earnest are redundant and constitutionally problematic.
No ifs, ands, or butts about it.
Conservatives say they are subject to a double standard.
Director Penny Lane chronicles the rise of the Satanic Temple, a group that combines theatrical stunts with political activism.
The group takes its First Amendment crusade to a public park in Minnesota.
Today it's creators, not cops, who want to banish R. Crumb, onetime king of the comics underground.
Director Penny Lane chronicles the rise of the Satanic Temple, a group that combines theatrical stunts with political activism.
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They're joined by an arrested spa owner and manager in fighting the release of surveillance video, with an array of big media companies on the other side.