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US Supreme Court to hear challenge to ban TikTok ahead of looming deadline

The US Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban on national security grounds. TikTok and ByteDance asked the Supreme Court on December 16 to pause the law, which they said …

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Trump’s $15m settlement with ABC shook the First Amendment’s foundation. It’s just the beginning

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I think the current legal standards for a public official and public figure would …

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1 week ago

Trump meets with TikTok CEO at Mar-a-Lago as company asks Supreme Court to intervene in fight over federal ban

CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump met with the head of TikTok at his Mar-a-Lago club Monday afternoon, a person familiar with the meeting told CNN, as the social media giant is asking the Supreme Court to wade into a court fight over use of the app in the United States. TikTok’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court thrusts the justices …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Drag's Future Could Be In Trump Judges' Hands

Huff Post

The second Trump administration may feature attacks on free speech, but drag artists are ready. Drag bans amount to little more than “an effort to erase LGBTQ+ people from public life,” Emerson Sykes, a senior staff attorney for speech, privacy and technology at the American Civil Liberties Union, told HuffPost. Evry Pleasure The case for drag artists to retain their …

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3 weeks ago

Will Donald Trump use Kash Patel to attack his critics and the First Amendment?

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The nomination of Kash Patel to serve as America’s next …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Trump didn't win — disinformation did

Raw Story

America has made a terrible mistake. Fox and Musk have gotten away with spreading disinformation because of a self-serving misapprehension of the political speech doctrine: The First Amendment protects ‘core political speech’ above all other forms of expression. But Musk purchasing the world’s town square only to weaponize it to support his own agenda, and Fox admittedly lying to viewers …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Elon Musk's biggest campaign contribution to Trump: weaponizing the First Amendment

Salon

America has made a terrible mistake. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism I’ve been a trial lawyer for decades, and I’ve had the misfortune of litigating arcane aspects of First Amendment law. Fox and Musk have gotten away with spreading disinformation because of a self-serving misapprehension of the political speech doctrine: The …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

A pragmatist with a pugnacious streak: How Kamala Harris’ legal philosophy could shape her presidency

Politico

“She’s willing to test the boundaries of the law when she sees something that in her view is an injustice,” said Dan Morain, a Harris biographer. “For me, a Supreme Court seat is not only about academic issues of legal precedent or judicial philosophy,” Harris said at Kavanaugh’s hearing in 2018. When we talk about our nation’s highest court and …

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2 months ago

“The enemy within”: Trump trumps Trump

Salon

He’s vindictive, shallow, delusional and increasingly dangerous – but no one seems to care. At a recent rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, she played clips where Trump claimed that “the worst people are the enemy from within.” Or, “radical left lunatics,” and implied he’d take violent measures against them once he’s back in office. She got to score against Fox News …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

'Comically unconstitutional': Analyst shreds Ron DeSantis' threat to criminalize speech

Raw Story

Ron DeSantis' latest bid to try to suppress the ballot referendum campaign to restore abortion rights in his state is "comically unconstitutional," a legal reporter wrote for Slate. But DeSantis has now escalated dramatically, with his Department of Health threatening in a letter to prosecute TV stations that air ads in favor of the amendment for "sanitary nuisance" — a …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads

Slate

Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening TV stations that air ads in support of an abortion rights ballot initiative with criminal penalties, including jail time. The Florida Department of Health claimed that airing the “Caroline” ad may violate the state’s ban on a “nuisance injurious to health,” a second-degree misdemeanor. Related From Slate The Giant Threat Lurking Behind Florida’s November Abortion …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress knew banning TikTok was a First Amendment problem. It did so anyway

Salon

Congress knew full well back in March that U.S. TikTok users engage in constitutionally protected speech on the app, and that banning it is an inadequate way to protect Americans’ privacy, according to a previously classified transcript. For example, a Justice Department official voiced concern that TikTok users’ public and private data could go to the Chinese government, which could …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Wisconsin’s Joe Gow loses his job for making videos: What the ex-chancellor will do now.

Slate

When I last spoke to Joseph Gow, the longtime university administrator had seen the porn videos he made with his wife go viral; lost his job as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse as a result of that virality; and launched a spirited First Amendment defense of a public employee’s right to have sex on-camera. They haven’t made any …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Psychology professor fired for opposing trans surgery for children wins free speech lawsuit against University of Louisville

Daily Mail

A leading child psychiatrist has won a lawsuit after he was abruptly fired for comments about gender dysphoria. Dr. Allan Josephson, 72, was tapped to head the University of Louisville's Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry more than 20 years ago. After being hit with a federal free speech lawsuit, the Kentucky school argued it was within its rights to …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans pushing Christianity into public schools are hitting resistance — even in red states

Politico

Republican officials including Louisiana Gov. “What we’re trying to do, honestly, is protect the religious freedoms of all of our students … from being improperly indoctrinated by teachers or by schools,” said Rob Miller, superintendent of the Bixby Public Schools district near Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is defying orders from Walters to incorporate the Bible and Ten Commandments into school curriculum. …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Does the First Amendment Protect A.I.? The Supreme Court May Soon Have Its Say.

Slate

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices want to reduce government regulation of private industry. The NetChoice cases dealt with laws passed by Florida and Texas that aimed to curb what lawmakers claimed was social media companies’ censorship of conservative viewpoints. Related From Slate The Courts Are Already Starting to Implement Project 2025, Without Trump Justice Elena Kagan’s 9–0 opinion strongly signaled—in …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Elon Musk brands Facebook revelations a 'first amendment violation' after Mark Zuckerberg admitted White House 'pressured' Meta to censor 'Covid misinformation' as well as 'demote' Hunter Biden laptop

Daily Mail

X CEO Elon Musk has branded the revelations that the Biden administration put pressure on Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, to censor COVID misinformation as a 'First Amendment violation.' X CEO Elon Musk branded the Facebook revelations as a 'First Amendment violation' Zuckerberg admitted that Meta demoted stories about Hunter Biden and his laptop Mark Zuckerberg promised not …

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4 months ago

Protesters plan large marches and rallies as Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Crowds of activists began …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Trump could empower the Supreme Court to gut the First Amendment: analysis

Raw Story

There is already a growing bloc on the right flank of the Supreme Court that wants to cripple key elements of the First Amendment, warned Ian Millhiser for Vox — and if former President Donald Trump is given another term, he could possibly add enough justices to let that actually happen. Today, the First Amendment truly protects protesters and journalists …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

How Samuel Alito got canceled from the Supreme Court social media majority

CNN

CNN — The hardline approach Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito takes usually gets him what he wants. US appellate Judge Andrew Oldham, a former Alito clerk, belittled the “large, well-heeled corporations that have hired an armada of attorneys from some of the best law firms in the world to protect their censorship rights.” The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Justice Department defends law calling for TikTok to change ownership or face ban

NPR

Justice Department defends law calling for TikTok to change ownership or face ban An update on the US government's new TikTok law. LUCAS: In its filing, the Justice Department defends this law, says it is necessary because of long-running national security concerns about TikTok. The department also filed sworn declarations from senior national security officials, and those say that TikTok …

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54 years, 11 months ago

The First Amendment Just Dodged an Enormous Bullet at the Supreme Court

Slate

At Supreme Court oral argument in the Texas social media case back in February, Justice Samuel Alito asked the question: “Let’s say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?” In Monday’s Supreme Court opinion in Moody v. NetChoice, a five-justice majority over Alito’s objection did not directly answer that absurd question, but it did say that under the …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court casts doubt on Florida and Texas laws to regulate social media platforms

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users in a ruling that strongly defended the platforms’ free speech rights. “The court’s recognition that the government cannot control social media in an effort to impose its …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

State social media laws aimed at protecting conservative users remain blocked, Supreme Court says

CNN

Washington CNN — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to settle the major constitutional questions raised in a blockbuster dispute over laws approved in Texas and Florida intended to protect conservative viewpoints on social media, meaning the laws will remain blocked for now while lower courts continue to sort out the constitutional questions involved. Kagan’s opinion, however, reserved special criticism …

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US Supreme Court to hear challenge to ban TikTok ahead of looming deadline

Trump’s $15m settlement with ABC shook the First Amendment’s foundation. It’s just the beginning

Trump meets with TikTok CEO at Mar-a-Lago as company asks Supreme Court to intervene in fight over federal ban

Drag's Future Could Be In Trump Judges' Hands

Will Donald Trump use Kash Patel to attack his critics and the First Amendment?

Trump didn't win — disinformation did

Elon Musk's biggest campaign contribution to Trump: weaponizing the First Amendment

A pragmatist with a pugnacious streak: How Kamala Harris’ legal philosophy could shape her presidency

“The enemy within”: Trump trumps Trump

'Comically unconstitutional': Analyst shreds Ron DeSantis' threat to criminalize speech

Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads

Congress knew banning TikTok was a First Amendment problem. It did so anyway

Wisconsin’s Joe Gow loses his job for making videos: What the ex-chancellor will do now.

Psychology professor fired for opposing trans surgery for children wins free speech lawsuit against University of Louisville

Republicans pushing Christianity into public schools are hitting resistance — even in red states

Does the First Amendment Protect A.I.? The Supreme Court May Soon Have Its Say.

Elon Musk brands Facebook revelations a 'first amendment violation' after Mark Zuckerberg admitted White House 'pressured' Meta to censor 'Covid misinformation' as well as 'demote' Hunter Biden laptop

Protesters plan large marches and rallies as Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago

Trump could empower the Supreme Court to gut the First Amendment: analysis

How Samuel Alito got canceled from the Supreme Court social media majority

Justice Department defends law calling for TikTok to change ownership or face ban

The First Amendment Just Dodged an Enormous Bullet at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court casts doubt on Florida and Texas laws to regulate social media platforms

State social media laws aimed at protecting conservative users remain blocked, Supreme Court says