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April 1, 2024
One legal expert is telling Americans that abridgment, not coercion, is the standard in a landmark free speech rights case.
Philip Hamburger, a Columbia University legal scholar and CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, took on what he argued is…
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January 24, 2024
A Republican senator called on the Supreme Court to finally address the rampant censorship targeting Americans’ speech on Big Tech platforms.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday filed a brief to the Court supporting Texas and Florida’s laws…
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December 22, 2023
As Big Tech censorship continues unabated, a new study has found that Americans — particularly conservatives — are increasingly self-censoring.
Reason reported on Dec. 12 about data published in June in Political Science Quarterly showing the…
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September 29, 2023
After years of delay, the notoriously risk-averse Supreme Court will finally decide whether states have the right to protect free speech from Big Tech’s authoritarian censors.
In a Friday morning order, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it…
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February 7, 2023
Don’t mess with Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Monday that his state is implementing a plan to enforce its TikTok ban on state-owned devices.
Abbott cited increased security risks due to the app’s troubling ties with the…
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January 24, 2023
An ongoing lawsuit alleging Big Tech-government collusion led to the unveiling of “The Facebook Files,” a trove of documents exposing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sordid influence over Facebook and Instagram’s bloated censorship…
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December 9, 2022
Texas has joined four other states in banning or partially blocking the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied TikTok for state agencies.
South Dakota, South Carolina, Nebraska and Maryland had already moved to ban TikTok for state agencies, The…
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August 24, 2022
The Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann told Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie why his company has refused to delete the infamous tweet that got it kicked off Twitter.
Twitter gave The Babylon Bee the boot in March when it tweeted out a…
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October 23, 2021
On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Texas can seek files on content moderation from Facebook and Twitter.
According to Bloomberg, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) can seek limited discovery from the Big Tech giants regarding their…
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September 23, 2021
NetChoice, a prominent tech trade group, is suing Texas over its anti-censorship law.
NetChoice alleges that the Texas law violates the First Amendment because it allows the government to compel platforms to host speech it doesn’t agree with.
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