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…
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says he supports the “free flow of information and ideas,” at least when it comes to recent laws in Texas and Florida attempting to squash the First Amendment rights of social media outlets. But when…
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…
Defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin trial fought like feral bobcats on Friday to block inflammatory testimony from a woman trafficked as a teen and advertised in adult ads posted by herself and pimps to the now-defunct classified-listings site, Backpage.com. Federal…
Federal prosecutors have failed, for now, in their most repugnant smear tactic to date in the case involving veteran journalists and onetime Backpage.com owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. In a ruling issued May 7 from Phoenix’s federal court, Judge…
California Senator Kamala Harris wants to save you from the mean man with raccoon eyes who inhabits the White House by deplatforming POTUS from Twitter, offering the latest example of the Democratic presidential contender’s abiding contempt for freedom of speech…
Not a day goes by that an obtuse politician, academic or talking head is not screeching for Facebook, Twitter or some other social media platform to remove content that someone, somewhere finds objectionable. The latest object of establishment ire? The…
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…
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,…
Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento paid off a young actor over sexual encounter that happened when he was 17 and she was 37 Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bans reporters from town hall in Queens because media “mobbed” her at previous…
