On July 4, U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty, Chief Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, issued an order blocking various entities of the federal government from harassing social media sites into censoring content. This has caused consternation…
Though Twitter once touted itself as “the free-speech wing of the free-speech party,” it moved past such free-speech absolutism under the reign of Twitter titan and part-time Rasputin-impersonator, Jack Dorsey, who recently announced that he’s departing as CEO of the…
Titania McGrath, the satirical Twitter persona created by British comedian Andrew Doyle, has the perfect antidote to the plague of pompous moralists who currently rule the internet: Her fresh-to-the-U.S. self-help book, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, which offers a welcome…
Google took another great leap forward Wednesday with an expanded hate speech policy for its subsidiary YouTube that targets abhorrent, far-right speech. It’s the latest purge from a social media colossus aimed at cleansing the internet of what many consider…
In the aftermath of Saturday’s mass shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, U.S. progressives rallied under the hashtag #JackStopTheHate to demand that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey ban neo-Nazis, President Donald Trump and other assorted right-wingers from the social media…
On January 8, 2019, in a court decision that could double as the film treatment for a remake of National Lampoon’s Animal House, a New York judge upheld Syracuse University’s suspension of ten members of the Theta Tau fraternity who had taken…
Those of us who were nursing our hangovers probably missed out. But on New Year’s Day, the nexus where Social Media Mavens, Social Justice Warriors, and Crossword Puzzle Solvers meet got a rare moment in the spotlight when the New…
The Thanksgiving leftovers barely had time to cool before Major League Baseball’s commissioner quietly tiptoed into the national political fray. Two days later, Rob Manfred’s office was forced to very publicly scramble out of said swamp. On Friday, November 23,…
Located a scant few miles south of the Wisconsin Dells theme-park mecca, the town of Baraboo takes its name from a river that meanders through the adjacent countryside. Prior to this past week, Baraboo’s chief claim to fame was its…
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote in a 1929 dissent that if any Constitutional principle is paramount, “it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the…
