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34 F.4TH 1196 (11TH CIR. 2022) 49 F.4TH 439 (5TH CIR. 2022) In 2021, both Florida and Texas enacted statutes to curtail social media platforms' ability to moderate content on [...]

Not so long ago we went to politicians for politics and comedians for comedy. Today, like many others, I watch politicians for amusement and listen to comedians for their political [...]

I'm just coming to the end of a four-week speaking tour Down Under and have spotted some worrying signs of what our new government might have in store for us, [...]

Hardly a day goes by without another story of academics clamping down on free speech. Dons at Buckingham University are the latest to express outrage at a proposed 'heterodox' (i.e. [...]

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. WHAT ARE DEEPFAKES? A. The Technology Behind Deepfakes B. How Deepfakes Got Their Name C. Defining Deepfakes II. DEEPFAKES OF POLITICAL FIGURES III. DEFAMATION LAW AS A [...]

Take a short scroll through Twitter or Facebook and you're bombarded with information. In just five minutes you can view, comment on and share the latest headlines, political opinions, cultural [...]

The Online Safety Bill promises huge changes to what Britons can do online B RITAIN'S GOVERNMENT likes to trumpet the benefits of free speech. Announcing a bill designed to prevent [...]

THE ACADEMY has long set itself apart from the rest of the world, as a place of open inquiry and critical thinking. That autonomy is part of what has given [...]

How a 13-year-old's 1960s court battle helped guarantee your right to express yourself in school MARY BETH TINKER had never felt so nervous. As she got ready for school on [...]

Florida Republicans passed a law that mandates students and faculty to clarify their political beliefs. As an educator and former Republican, the new law is a terrible overreach of government. [...]

Florida's GOP wants social media companies to be fined for suspending politicians. They proposed a $250,000 a day fine for any company that suspends the accounts of political candidates. Republican [...]

An awkward coincidence draws attention to an illiberal bill FROM THE government's point of view, the timing could not have been worse. On March 13th, hundreds of people gathered on [...]

James Delingpole and I had a blazing row on our weekly podcast on Monday. We were discussing the recent departure of Mark Steyn from GB News following a bust-up over [...]

Twitter has said in a (https://blog.google/products/news/google-news-showcase-launches-uk/) blog post that it won't block the accounts of politicians, journalists and activists in India, despite being (https://www.engadget.com/india-government-jail-twitter-employees-block-critics-122405568.html) ordered to do so by the [...]

In his latest post-election snit that no one's taking very seriously, Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-threatens-veto-defense-bill-over-social-media-protections-n1249667) veto the annual defense funding bill if Congress doesn't repeal a key law [...]

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. CLASSIC CASE LAW UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE HECKLER'S VETO II. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE HECKLER'S VETO: SOME EMERGING JUDICIAL ISSUES III. THE HECKLER'S VETO IN THE [...]

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE PUBLIC FORUM DOCTRINE A. Public Fora B. Limited and Designated Public Fora C. Nonpublic Fora II. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES RESPOND A. Speech Codes B. Bias Response [...]

SOMETHING IS BROKEN in our politics. Just about everyone knows it, but it can be hard to put your finger on what it is. As the media attempt to grapple [...]

German-born Robert Paul Prager had been living in the United States since 1905 when he was dragged from his home, stripped to his underwear, and lynched just outside the city [...]

Tom Williams via Getty Images Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an (https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Leahy%20Amendment%20to%20S.%203398%20-%20OLL20683.pdf) amended version of the EARN IT Act. The controversial legislation will now head to the full Senate [...]

Facing criticism over its political ad policies, Facebook pledged Thursday to leave them virtually untouched. The social media platform will continue to allow lies and misinformation in ads posted by [...]

As a defender of free speech, I'm used to taking up the cudgels on behalf of unsavoury people. To quote Lord Justice Sedley in a famous High Court judgment in [...]

By NICHOLAS B. DIRKSWOKE ON February 2, 2017, to a new reality. The night before, riots had broken out at the University of California at Berkeley, where I was then [...]

AFFIRMATIVE Don't Use the Law to Compel Conformity LIBERTARIANS GENERALLY TAKE a live-and-let-live approach, advocating freedom of association over anti-discrimination mandates. Moreover, a key aspect of libertarian policy is a [...]

Tattoo artists Tom and Elizabeth Preston jumped through every regulatory hoop that the city of Tempe, Arizona, placed in their way. The couple filed the necessary paperwork for opening a [...]