Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
Governments around the world seek to suppress ideas and control communications channels.
Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death.
The Telegram co-founder may become a free-expression martyr for the terrible crime of enabling permissionless speech.
Criminalizing such promises would violate the First Amendment
French police arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov for failing to control his social media and messaging app.
Susan Hogarth posted a photo of her primary ballot. In North Carolina, that's against the law.
It's an insane ask for someone convicted of just one nonviolent offense.
Sen. Rand Paul makes the case against the Kids Online Safety Act.
Beware the Thierry Bretons of the world.
By targeting "persons undermining peace, security, and stability," the plaintiffs argue, the president is threatening to punish people for opposing a two-state solution.
The First Amendment case about a first-grader’s free speech rights is headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Kamala Harris' veep should learn something about the First Amendment.
Officials ordered schools to review all courses with descriptions or syllabi that contain words such as Israel, Palestine, and Jewish.
The NIH had been deleting all social media comments containing words like animal, testing, and cruel.
"Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties," said one researcher. "This is a dictator's fantasy."
According to disciplinary charges against Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, she suppressed video evidence that would have helped DisruptJ20 defendants.
A new survey from the Knight Foundation found that more than 1 in 4 college students agreed schools should prohibit "speech they may find offensive or biased."
Antonin Scalia twice joined Supreme Court decisions rejecting bans on that particular form of political expression.
Only Sens. Paul and Wyden are expected to vote "no" on Tuesday. Power to stop KOSA now resides with the House.
Customs and Border Protection insists that it can search electronics without a warrant. A federal judge just said it can't.
"Now, people will say, 'Oh, it's unconstitutional.' Those are stupid people," the former president said.
The Kids Online Safety Act would have cataclysmic effects on free speech and privacy online.
Plus: Gainesville shrinks minimum lot sizes, a Colorado church can keep providing shelter to the homeless, and Berkeley considers allowing small apartments everywhere.
The Church of the Rock is suing, arguing that the zoning crackdown in Castle Rock violates the First Amendment.
However distasteful, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to give a police officer the middle finger.
In a "novel" order concerning the app NGL, the agency takes aim at online anonymity and at minors on social media.
Nearly eight years after it was filed, the vexatious lawsuit against protester DeRay Mckesson has been dismissed with prejudice.
After police detained Benjamin Hendren, they urged construction workers to lie about him.
The town of Lakeland will have to refund Julie Pereira $688 in fines and fees and pay her $1 in nominal damages for violating her First Amendment rights.
Plus: A listener asks whether Bruce Springsteen's song Born in the U.S.A is actually patriotic.
"Every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom," state Superintendent Ryan Walters announced last week.
Department of Education settlements with protest-wracked colleges threaten censorship by bureaucracy.
Supervised release shouldn't require former inmates to give up their First Amendment rights.
And the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in.
Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.
"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.
The majority opinion makes clear that social media content moderation is an activity protected by the First Amendment. That likely dooms large parts of the state laws restricting content moderation.
The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.
The standing requirements laid down by the majority might make it extremely difficult or impossible for victims of indirect goverment censorship to get their cases to court.
The verdict in Murthy v. Missouri is a big, flashing green light that jawboning may resume.
Murthy v. Missouri challenges government efforts to suppress dissenting viewpoints on social media.
"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The justices ruled that "objective evidence" of retaliation does not require "very specific comparator evidence."
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