Meghan Markle’s half-sis says the future princess can’t tell her to stuff it, because, “There’s something in this country known as freedom of speech.”

ACLU of Northern California sues City of Sacramento over “cruel and unusual” anti-panhandling ordinance

In what world does arresting people for panhandling help solve poverty?

We're suing the City of Sacramento to put a stop to its cruel and unconstitutional anti-solicitation ordinance. #FreeSpeech https://t.co/CV3lOjFLKp pic.twitter.com/AgpOCX4ZhT

— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) May 9, 2018

Twitter announces it will use “behavioral signals” to shadowban trolls

Twitter admits to #shadowbanning#Shadowban – to hide certain users' tweets from conversations and followers' timelines even of they are not muted or blockedhttps://t.co/wmm88RwWBd

— troovus (@troovus) May 15, 2018

Pittsburgh City Paper editor says his bosses at the alt-weekly canned him for skewering local right-wing politico

I have been fired from the @PGHCityPaper. I was given no reason. Last week they told me to stop writing about @RepMetcalfe. I refused. They tell the PG that’s not the reason I was fired. If anyone finds out let me know! https://t.co/w2FQf7Wjvg

— Charlie Deitch (@CharlieDee71) May 15, 2018

Texas Supreme Court dismisses defamation suit against Dallas Morning News over column on teen’s suicide

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Electronic Frontier Foundation sues Texas A&M on behalf of PETA for blocking criticism of the university’s medical research on golden retrievers

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