What social media app drives U.S. politicians to ape the totalitarianism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? If you guessed TikTok, pat yourself on the back. The ADD-friendly video-sharing platform, which boasts more than 1 billion monthly active users worldwide…
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut combines the worst characteristics of Cotton Mather, Girolamo Savonarola and the Rev. Jerry Falwell — Senior, not Junior. The 76-year-old Democrat’s persistent, self-righteous efforts to censor the internet, using “the kids” as his rallying…
At the first glimpse of anti-sex work researcher Dominique Roe-Sepowitz on screen, a round of boos erupted from the audience at Tucson’s Screening Room on Friday, where they were watching a preview of director PJ Starr‘s upcoming documentary, Manifesting Monica…
In what must sound like manna from heaven to Fox News producers, President Trump is promising to expand his recent, Putin-like treatment of protesters in Portland, Oregon to other U.S. cities, dispatching federal officers clad in camo and tactical gear…
In an ironic, man-bites-dog moment, the Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF), a non-profit trade organization, bestowed its 2020 “First Amendment Defender Award” to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on March 5, the same day Blumenthal and fellow sponsors…
Four national non-profits dedicated to protecting civil liberties and personal freedom in the United States have lodged proposed amicus briefs with the federal court in Phoenix in support of a recent motion to dismiss by defendants in the Backpage case….
The battle over free speech raged in courtrooms, on college campuses, and on social media in 2018, with wedding cakes for same-sex couples and the federal government’s attack on sex workers taking center stage. In no particular order, are the…
When the right and left of the political spectrum defend the First Amendment on identical grounds, free speech triumphs — even if neither side wants to share the glory after the fact. All of that came to pass with a…
More than two dozen sex workers and advocates for sex workers’ rights from across the nation convened in Los Angeles June 23-24 at the offices of the ACLU of Southern California for a strategy session to address harsh new federal legislation…
National demonstrations against White House child-separation policy announced for June 30 Photo of Honduran child crying as mother’s detained inspires Facebook fundraising effort that’s netted more than $5 million $7 million Embed from Getty Images David Hogg demands boycott of…
