In comments to CNN on Monday night, Biden expressed a willingness to smash Section 230 in order to settle a feud his campaign is having with Facebook. That's a terrible idea.
DART police officer Stephanie Branch illegally arrested Avi Adelman after he defied her unlawful orders to stop photographing paramedics treating an overdose.
The Seventh Circuit's ruling on remedies for Janus violations
Tech bias, real or alleged, does not violate free speech rights.
As surely as winter follows fall, Republican election victories are followed by unconstitutional attempts to restrict political speech.
Episode 7 of Free Speech Rules, from UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
But the technical nature of the decision might not stop future lawsuits.
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Citing the First Amendment, the judge tells the sheriff he may not force certain homes to display signs warning trick-or-treaters to stay away.
Freedom of expression is under attack from politicians, activists, and, saddest of all, journalists who benefit most from it.
The 21-year-old faces criminal punishment for text messages to her suicidal boyfriend.
The comedian received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in D.C. this weekend. His acceptance speech airs on PBS in January.
Most respondents, especially millennials, favored viewpoint-based censorship, suppression of "hurtful or offensive" speech in certain contexts, and legal penalties for wayward news organizations.
She didn't break the law or threaten anybody, but her school still panicked.
The state's hate crimes law—a "rarely enforced relic dating to 1917"—eviscerates free speech.
The bill is an obvious First Amendment violation says Jim Manley of the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Unfortunately, rather than challenging Warren on the constitutionality of her plans, Biden is imitating them, at least when it comes to the assault on the First Amendment.
Should participation in an election hinge on a voter's identity being made public? Of course not.
Although San Francisco's supervisors urged city officials to punish contractors with ties to this "domestic terrorist organization," they say they did not really mean it.
If people think cancel culture sucks now, just wait until the government gets involved.
If you think a map of the moon might help an inmate escape, you might be a prison censor.
The case vividly illustrates how hate crime laws punish people for the views they express.
Supervisor Shamann Walton thinks he can use restrictions on commercial speech to suppress political speech.
A new book tries and fails to make a case against freedom of expression.
It took a jury 26 minutes to decide that Jonathan Vanderhagen wasn't guilty.
Officer Stephanie Branch arrested Avi Adelman for criminal trespass even though he was not doing anything illegal.
Conservatives deploy state power to go after speech they don't like.
Jonathan Vanderhagen believes a judge doomed his son to an early death. The judge says Vanderhagen's Facebook posts were intimidating.
Now he's being sued for another act of excessive force.
They worry that letting speech flourish in the rest of the campus will make "students feel unsafe and unwelcome."
Four myths about the law that made the modern internet possible.
Going beyond criticism, the resolution would punish the NRA and its supporters by cutting off contractors with ties to the group.
The Supreme Court has said the First Amendment protects government contractors against termination based on their political views.
Episode 6 of Free Speech Rules, from UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Kerri Owens' firing from her job at Allen High School may well be a First Amendment violation.
Conservatives who argue that the video platform is constrained by the First Amendment are forsaking their constitutional principles.
It flies in the face of precedent.
The state attempted to recall the vanity plate on the grounds that it referenced "excretory acts or functions."
The same First Amendment principles that apply to the president also apply to the congresswoman.
Even as the senator calls Donald Trump a press-bullying authoritarian, he threatens press freedom in the name of preserving "independent" media.
By punishing Jeff Klinzman, Kirkwood Community College has dealt a blow to free speech.
"Joke or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law," says the Volusia County Sheriff's Office
The Democratic presidential contender suggests that "racist threats or anti-immigrant manifestos" could justify federal gun confiscation orders.
The nation's leading scholar of mass shootings explains how media coverage of horrific events such as El Paso and Dayton stoke unwarranted fear and anxiety.
The constitutional amendment they support, like the president’s plan to regulate social media, trusts the government to moderate our political debate.
The Democracy for All Amendment aims to mute some voices so that others can be heard.
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