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Democrats are repeatedly turning to a strategy that enables them to secure Republican support for competition legislation, but with steep long-term costs for content moderation.
Nor am I “panicked over free speech breaking out” on Elon Musk’s Twitter, or part of “a strong movement on the left to regulate and censor the Internet.”
The new regulations codified a policy—announced by the attorney general in July 2021—prohibiting the use of compulsory legal process—the use of subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and other investigatory practices—against “newsgathering” individuals who possess and/or publish classified information.
Tornado Cash is a deathless artificial being, animated by magical words to circumvent the law.
The chilling effects of the Treasury Department’s unprecedented sanctions against code itself are being felt well beyond the cryptocurrency community, threatening the entire open source software ecosystem, and raising existential questions for all privacy-promoting technologies.
The Fifth Circuit badly overreaches in upholding Texas’s social media moderation law, making a hash of the First Amendment in the process.
A federal appeals court ruled that a state statute requiring government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel does not violate the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court may overturn one of its most important free speech rulings of all time, but legislators and state courts can blunt the harms.
The Eleventh Circuit’s ruling provides important guidance to legislators working on social media laws, but the most important takeaway is the vindication of a consumer protection approach to social media content moderation.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee's support for a bill that “would outlaw attempts by candidates and elected officials to spread lies about free and fair elections when it has the likelihood to stoke violence” raises substantial First Amendment problems.