The Supreme Court will settle a dispute over a video that aired on a New York City public access television channel that could have ramifications for social media and public radio stations. On Friday, the Justices said they would accept Manhattan Community Access Corp. v.Source: Supreme Court takes public access TV case with bigger implications...
On September 28th, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that forbids the surreptitious use of bots to, among other things, influence Californians’ votes in an election. The law is a disclosure rule: the bot may speak, but it must clearly identify itself as nonhuman.Source: Counterfeit Campaign Speech...
A federal appeals court in California ruled Tuesday that a charitable group backed by the Koch network must disclose its donors to the state attorney general, setting up a potential legal challenge that could make its way to the Supreme Court. A three-member panel of the U.S.Source: Koch-backed charity must reveal donor list to California state officials, appeals court rules...
Republicans are calling for government action to correct ‘bias’ online. It wasn’t so long ago that the GOP rejected such arguments. Another day, another call for government intervention in free speech on the Internet.Source: The Internet Doesn’t Need a Fairness Doctrine...
President Trump is speaking forcefully about fixing a growing problem affecting our national discourse. He says we may need to regulate the giant tech companies that control vast swaths of our information landscape, due to their bias.Source: Hey, Google, Facebook, Twitter – Trump's got a point. You need to do a better job of self-regulating...
Local newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Maryland law intended to make political advertising more transparent and prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections.Source: Why Newsrooms Are Challenging Maryland's Online Ad Law...
Call 2018 the “Year of Deplatforming.” The internet was once celebrated for allowing fresh new voices to escape the control of gatekeepers. But this year, the internet giants decided to slam the gates on a number of people and ideas they don’t like.Source: When Digital Platforms Become Censors...
Earlier this week I wrote a piece for the New York Times where I proposed a centuries-old framework for resolving our endless series of online free speech controversies.Source: A First Amendment Peace Plan for the Twitter Wars...
This 2017 file photo shows a call log displayed via an AT&T app on a cellphone in Orlando, Fla. The app helps locate and block fraudulent calls, although some robocalls do get through. Source: Federal judge rules Wyoming ban on robocalls unconstitutional...
Once upon a time, there was a fringe news outlet with a loud and dissenting opinion. A fatal shooting, it claimed, was not at all what it seemed to be: It was a hoax, orchestrated by some shadowy force—probably Communists—bent on replacing freedom with dictatorship.Source: Win or Lose, the Alex Jones Lawsuit Will Redefine Free Speech...
