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June 6, 2024
Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant conceded defeat in a weeks-long effort to force X (formerly Twitter) to censor content she didn’t approve of across the globe.
On June 5, Grant dropped her Federal Court complaint against X…
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May 13, 2024
An Australian federal judge has swooped in to defend free speech by siding with Elon Musk in the tech billionaire’s latest spat with Australia’s Ministry of Truth.
On May 13, Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett blocked the application for the…
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April 23, 2024
Elon Musk has been targeted by yet another authoritarian government for his company X’s reluctance to censor political content.
In an April 23 interview with Sky News, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie appeared to threaten Elon Musk over his…
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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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February 16, 2024
Australia’s Communications Minister threatened that X (formerly Twitter) will be in “big trouble” if it does not comply with the country’s proposed new censorship laws.
The Australian Financial Review reported February 12 that Australian…
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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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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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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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May 24, 2022
Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant called for a “recalibration” of “freedom of speech” online during the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland on Monday. BusinessWorld contributing editor Pranjal Sharma also claimed…
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February 24, 2021
Facebook has come to an agreement with the Australian government in order to bring back Australian news to its platform.
In retaliation to a proposed law in Australia that would require tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay for news content…