A victory for free speech in San Antonio! After FIRE sent a letter, the city promised to stop hiding or deleting Facebook comments critical of its animal shelter’s euthanasia policy. We’re feline good about this win. Censorship has no place in America, doggone it! 😉

Americans: The government should censor misinformation. Also Americans: The government is the most concerning spreader of misinformation.

UMD tried to give the First Amendment the day off.

There's no reason for this other than some people's personal discomfort with the harmless activity Gow chooses to pursue in his private life. It has no bearing on his competence as a professor.

Love an acronym that just rolls off the tongue.

Convincing people that there is an exception to freedom of speech called “hate speech” has been one of the greatest marketing successes of the anti-free speech movement. I've been fighting it on campuses for almost 24 years now and it's a justification used all the time to target

Choosing civility is not censorship, but civility required by threat of punishment is coercion. And as John Stuart Mill pointed out so well, civility tends to be decided by the values of societal elites. Uncivil arguments that agree with the dominant opinion of elites is seen as

"Supreme Court precedent illuminates that while a well-founded fear of a digitally manipulated media landscape may be justified, this fear does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the

The Florida government is threatening to prosecute a local TV station for creating a “sanitary nuisance.” I thought maybe the station dumped raw sewage in a river. Nope, turns out they aired an allegedly deceptive political ad about the state’s abortion law. But the First

Free speech is like breathing. It's easy to take it for granted, and we often don't notice how much we want and need it until it's restricted.

In case you’re wondering if the right will also use “disinformation” as a cludgle to use state power to suppress speech they don’t like: yes, yes they will Never give power to the government you aren’t comfortable with your enemy possessing

"Using history alone to define First Amendment freedoms is a very bad idea." 100%. Couldn't agree more with this very important, very timely New York Times Opinion piece from Matthew Schafer and Jake Charles. Grateful to them for writing it. nytimes.com/2024/10/10/opi…

With respect, Carlos Maza, I am surprised to hear this coming from an LGBT activist whose parents were from Cuba, and a member of DSA who has described being in the debate club as a kid as "the most meaningful thing that's ever happened to me." As a former university

The Atlantic piece actually supports the argument that censorship of "misinformation" would not solve anything. The piece discusses how misinformation is a tool people use to reinforce their political identities rather than to persuade others of facts. People are so polarized and

The Coastal Commission's purview is environmental impact — not thoughtcrimes. You shouldn't need to have the right politics in order to do business in the state of California. The First Amendment and California regulators are on a collision course.

Not sure a legal cause of action that allows individuals/companies to recoup measurable losses caused by knowingly false statements about them is the same as “really aggressive government regulation of speech platforms” to root out “misinformation.”

Wise words from Christopher Moltisanti-- I mean Franz Kafka

VICTORY: The United States Supreme Court throws out the Fifth Circuit’s decision dismissing citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal’s lawsuit and sends it back for review. This has major implications for Americans’ First Amendment rights.