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The Bipartisan Urge to Control Online Speech: Democrats and Republicans Are United in Thinking Their Political Agendas Trump the First Amendment Oct. 25, 2023
According to the Biden administration, federal officials who urged social media companies to suppres... Read More
Too Pure for Harvard? Oct. 25, 2023
The BDS — or Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions — movement began in 2005 as a progressive ef... Read More
Authoritarian Thugs Continue Their Persecution of Jack Phillips Oct. 13, 2023
I've been writing about Denver-area baker Jack Phillips for over a decade now. It's clear to me he's... Read More
Big Tech's Armageddon Oct. 04, 2023
Never before in U.S. history have Americans been less free to see and say what they want. The blame ... Read More
Defenders of the Florida and Texas Social Media Laws Contradict Themselves: If Facebook et al. Are Pushing a 'Radical Leftist Narrative,' Why Don't They Have a Constitutional Right to Do That? Oct. 04, 2023
Social media companies argue that their content moderation decisions are a form of editorial discret... Read More
Defenders of the Florida and Texas Social Media Laws Contradict Themselves: If Facebook et al. Are Pushing a 'Radical Leftist Narrative,' Why Don't They Have a Constitutional Right to Do That? Oct. 04, 2023
Social media companies argue that their content moderation decisions are a form of editorial discret... Read More
RICO and Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Activists Send a Chilling Message Sep. 25, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The 2020 police killing of George Floyd launched the largest protests in U.S. history and a nationwi... Read More
The ADL Does Not Speak for the Jews Sep. 08, 2023
Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for some $22 billion over its slandering ... Read More
Don't Tread On a Boy's Free Speech Aug. 31, 2023
From the all-things-are-racist movement comes something we missed in third grade. The Gadsden Flag &... Read More
A Ruling Against a Man Arrested for a COVID-19 Joke Highlights the Influence of a Pernicious Analogy: A Federal Judge Compared Waylon Bailey's Facebook Jest to 'Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theatre' Aug. 30, 2023
Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff's deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon... Read More
A Ruling Against a Man Arrested for a COVID-19 Joke Highlights the Influence of a Pernicious Analogy: A Federal Judge Compared Waylon Bailey's Facebook Jest to 'Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theatre' Aug. 30, 2023
Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff's deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon... Read More
We Can't Tolerate Assaults on Free Speech Aug. 22, 2023
Emancipation of slaves. Women's suffrage. Civil rights. Freedom to worship, ignore or denigrate God.... Read More
Raid of Kansas Newspaper Is a Chilling Example of What America Must Not Become Aug. 16, 2023
If there has been one overarching theme to the tumultuous politics of this era, it is the repeated r... Read More
A Ham-Handed Bill Attacks the First Amendment in the Name of Protecting Minors From Online Harm: The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous 'Duty of Care' That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Conten Aug. 11, 2023
Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word "ki... Read More
A St. Louis Case Raises the Trumpian Question of When Speech Becomes Criminal Aug. 09, 2023
That Omali Yeshitela holds what most Americans would consider some radical political views is beyond... Read More
A Ham-Handed Bill Attacks the First Amendment in the Name of Protecting Minors From Online Harm: The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous 'Duty of Care' That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Conten Aug. 09, 2023
Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word "ki... Read More
Jack Smith's Jan. 6 Indictments Are an Attack on Political Speech Aug. 04, 2023
If recklessly lying to voters were a crime, most everyone in D.C. would be serving life in solitary ... Read More
The Press's War Against Free Speech Jul. 21, 2023
Have we gotten to the point that it's politically necessary to defend the principle of free speech? ... Read More
Informal Censorship Is Worse Than Book Burning -- And It's Here Jul. 20, 2023
Suppose the president of the United States voices concern over media concentration. The president pr... Read More
Critics of the Ruling Against Biden's Anti-'Misinformation' Crusade See No Threat to Freedom of Speech: The Response to the Decision Illustrates the Alarming Erosion of Bipartisan Support for the First Amendment Jul. 14, 2023
Last week, a federal judge in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction that bars a long list of fed... Read More
