27 stories tagged free-speech, newest first.
406 points by iamnothere | 447 comments
Blog post by lawyer Preston Byrne arguing Ofcom admitted in Commons committee testimony that its jurisdiction over 4chan ends where foreign courts' jurisdiction begins.
9 points by gojiberries | 0 comments
Guardian news article reporting that author Sally Rooney says she can no longer receive UK royalties or visit the UK due to her support for proscribed group Palestine Action.
34 points by hn_acker | 33 comments
Techdirt article by Mike Masnick on how platform violent-content policies will clash with the Pentagon's plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan.
36 points by bcaulfield | 18 comments
Mirror US news article about a man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after a Facebook comment was screenshotted and passed to authorities and his employer.
43 points by latein | 10 comments
Reclaim The Net article reporting that a UK Home Office unit kept files on people who criticized the Prevent counter-extremism program, revealed after an appeal.
57 points by MC995 | 52 comments
CBC News article reporting that Montreal city council adopted a bylaw banning insults directed at police officers and municipal employees.
885 points by arkhiver | 523 comments
An anonymous opinion post arguing that age verification laws in the US, Europe, and Australia are a precursor to tying online speech to people's real identities.
673 points by xrd | 388 comments
An Intercept opinion piece arguing that a 30-year sentence for a defendant who transported zines related to the Prairieland protest threatens free speech.
1073 points by bilsbie | 550 comments
An opinion piece on FIRE's Expression newsletter arguing that internet age verification laws amount to identity verification and threaten Americans' privacy.
621 points by abawany | 269 comments
Reclaim The Net article about a Texas woman arrested over a Facebook post criticizing her town's water quality; page showed a Cloudflare verification screen.
632 points by ceejayoz | 405 comments
FIRE news post announcing a $835,000 settlement for a Tennessee man jailed 37 days over a Trump meme, following a First Amendment lawsuit.
368 points by pseudolus | 65 comments
New York Times article on Afroman winning a civil trial brought by police officers over his use of raid footage in music videos; page showed a captcha.
1095 points by antonymoose | 628 comments
New York Post news article reporting that rapper Afroman was found not liable in an Ohio defamation lawsuit brought by sheriff's deputies who raided his home.
436 points by c420 | 825 comments
Reuters exclusive reporting that the US government plans an online portal to help users bypass content bans in Europe and other regions.
400 points by pabs3 | 199 comments
ACLU article arguing that the Apple and Google app store oligopoly enables corporate and government censorship of smartphone apps; screenshot shows a donation modal overlay.
1452 points by Brajeshwar | 535 comments
Ars Technica article on a lock company suing a popular YouTuber who showed its $130 lock being opened with a shim, and the backlash that followed.
598 points by macawfish | 793 comments
A Substack essay by Michael Ellsberg arguing a Supreme Court ruling effectively ends free speech protections for sexual writing online, and asking whether his literary site is now illegal.
406 points by miles | 317 comments
Dublin Live news article reporting a man was allegedly refused entry to the US after border officers found a bald JD Vance meme on his phone.
843 points by todsacerdoti | 541 comments
A Krebs on Security article examining how each of the First Amendment's protections—speech, press, religion, assembly, petition—is facing threats.
762 points by impish9208 | 1199 comments
Meta newsroom post by Joel Kaplan announcing the end of its third-party fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes model.
322 points by fortran77 | 163 comments
Reason article about an Iowa man suing after being arrested twice for criticizing police at a public meeting.
1322 points by mantiq | 970 comments
EFF Deeplinks post from August 2023 arguing that internet service providers should not police or block online speech, even when it is awful.
768 points by graeme | 165 comments
Twitter thread by Molson Hart describing how Amazon's lawyers subpoenaed him after he criticized Amazon's seller policies in a blog post.
401 points by doener | 207 comments
Tweet by Jimmy Wales contrasting Wikipedia's court fight against Turkey's ban with Elon Musk's decision to restrict tweets in Turkey.
366 points by moose_man | 269 comments
Daily Beast opinion piece arguing that tech executives like Elon Musk are allowing authoritarian governments to censor content seen by Americans.
335 points by hirundo | 308 comments
Jonathan Turley's blog column describing how ChatGPT fabricated a sexual harassment accusation against him, and the defamation risks posed by AI chatbots.
388 points by remote_phone | 261 comments
Techdirt article criticizing Midjourney CEO David Holz for blocking satirical images of Xi Jinping to keep the AI image generator available in China.