In the Not Everyone Is Stomping All Over the First Amendment department, the scrappy internet-watchdog site Techdirt.com notched a massive win in a libel suit last week. The suit had been filed in federal court in Massachusetts by V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai,…
Only in California would the state assembly pass a statute outlawing the outing of an actor’s age online, but that’s exactly what legislators did in 2016 with Assembly Bill 1687, which targets movie-listings giant Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), and would…
Announced on August 25 just as Hurricane Harvey commenced to batter Texas’s Gulf Coast, President Donald Trump’s pardon of ex-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio blew its own ill wind across the nation. Convicted on a charge of criminal contempt of…
For the past several years, Elizabeth Nolan Brown over at Reason.com has been steadily and smartly reporting about attacks on the First Amendment via Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. (Her in-depth feature, “The War on Sex Trafficking…
With a red shawl coiled around her neck and fierce, flashing eyes, Linda Smith, founder and president of the nonprofit advocacy group Shared Hope International, strode out of a Sacramento courtroom on August 23 to address reporters after a judge…
Embed from Getty Images Above: U.S. Senator (and former California Attorney General) Kamala Harris Unlike the vast majority of news coverage surrounding the latest decision out of Sacramento in the Backpage.com case, Techdirt cut through the media manure and summed…
