Impolite, but not defamation Cops asked the jury for millions after Afroman used raid footage in music videos. On Wednesday, […]
Category: free speech
ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal
ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings. In a lawsuit filed against top Trump administration officials […]
Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime”
Texas minors also challenge law The Texas App Store Accountability Act is similar to laws enacted by Utah and Louisiana. […]
4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act
The risk assessments also seem to unconstitutionally compel speech, they argued, forcing them to share information and “potentially incriminate themselves […]
Researcher threatens X with lawsuit after falsely linking him to French probe
X claimed that David Chavalarias, “who spearheads the ‘Escape X’ campaign”—which is “dedicated to encouraging X users to leave the […]
First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues
Do LLMs generate “pure speech”? Feds could censor chatbots if their “speech” isn’t protected, Character.AI says. Pushing to dismiss a […]
TikTok loses Supreme Court fight, prepares to shut down Sunday
Further, the government was right to single TikTok out, SCOTUS wrote, due to its “scale and susceptibility to foreign adversary […]
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
It’s getting harder to access popular adult sites in the US South. On Wednesday, Pornhub’s owner, Aylo, kicked off the […]
Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok
Several members of Congress— Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)—filed a brief […]
Supreme Court to decide if TikTok should be banned or sold
While the controversial US law doesn’t necessarily ban TikTok, it does seem designed to make TikTok “go away,” Greene said, […]