If you’ve ever wondered what the United States would look like if we forswore the First Amendment and made politically correct speech codes the law of the land, look no further than the United Kingdom, where tweeting a bad joke…
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden pretty much threw himself in front of the proposed Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) on Wednesday, offering a lonely but impassioned speech on the Senate floor in opposition to the legislation, which seeks to make online adult…
UPDATE: On Wednesday afternoon the U.S. Senate passed FOSTA Frankenstein 97 to 2. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden was the only senator to speak in opposition to the bill. The Senate overwhelmingly voted down his amendment to allocate funding for sex…
U.S. Sen. John McCain received thousands of dollars in contributions from executives at the Silicon Valley healthcare-technology company Theranos. In a symbiotic relationship reminiscent of his involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late 1980s, the Arizona Republican played…
After issuing multiple warnings to Britain First that the group was violating the social-media platform’s “Community Standards,” Facebook has banned the London-based nationalist organization from its platform. Britain First’s Facebook page was taken down, as were the pages of its two…
Senator Ron Wyden is taking a page from Mel Brooks’s 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein in a bid to alter the disastrous Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) — a.k.a. the “Frankenstein bill” — which is galumphing toward a vote…
The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which detractors have dubbed the “Frankenstein bill,” just lurched one step closer to passage by the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to limit debate on the controversial anti-sex-trafficking measure,…
Comedian Kathy Griffin appeared this past Friday on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, unrepentant and unbowed. When the host asked what she’d do differently regarding the infamous pic of her posing with a gory replica of President Donald Trump’s disembodied…
The First Amendment battle of the 1970s was the fight to publish the Pentagon Papers, but in the era of Trump, the donnybrook du jour is XXX actress Stormy Daniels’s ongoing scrap with POTUS over the right to reveal the sordid…
The ACLU has declared war on statutes that target boycotts of Israel, claiming they violate the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. Recently, a federal judge agreed with the civil-rights organization, issuing a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of…
