Free Speech & Tech Moderation

9+ hour, 47+ min ago   (531+ words) Human rights lawyer and Amnesty International legal adviser, Kolawole Olaniyan, has tackled the President Bola Tinubu administration over what he described as the growing use of the criminal justice system and security agencies to intimidate critics and restrict dissent. Olaniyan,…...

19+ hour, 4+ min ago   (181+ words) With a picture of Wisconsin in the background, “Democrats Support Free Speech” is printed on yard signs popping up in Superior, assumedly manufactured and distributed by the Wisconsin Democratic Party. When considering modern free-speech Supreme Court jurisprudence, however, this claim…...

21+ hour, 27+ min ago   (901+ words) Every budget session now seems to end with the same image: marshals dragging out slogan-raising legislators, followed by the Speaker’s suspension order. It is a scene that keeps returning to one unresolved constitutional question – where does the House’s power to…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago   (43+ words) Texarkana Gazette EDITORIAL | Not So Free Speech: Defaming, threatening online content can cost you dearly One problem with social media is that users often forget their posts can have consequences....

1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (369+ words) The War on Poverty is proof that good intentions don’t produce good results. He said the goal “is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” If you follow politics,…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (711+ words) More than 60 UCLA law professors, joined by almost 300 others from law schools throughout the United States—the numbers are growing—have published open letters denouncing Chancellor Julio Frenk’s public statement critical of the School of Law’s symposium on “25 Years after…...

13+ hour, 41+ min ago   (505+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. The story of Nancy Pelosi’s rise in American politics. University of California campuses cannot enforce an anti-harassment policy against members of a conservative group for…...

12+ hour, 14+ min ago   (390+ words) "A country that “allows” people to write negative stuff — or anything else that may irritate those in power — is called America," tweets ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl. "The freedom to do so is enshrined in the very First…...

11+ hour, 29+ min ago   (315+ words) When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (above in 2024) called the pastor “an Islamophobe,” declaring: “I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome…...

11+ hour, 29+ min ago   (315+ words) When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (above in 2024) called the pastor “an Islamophobe,” declaring: “I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome…...