■ Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a scathing dissent following the high court’s 303 Creative ruling.
■ The web designer ruling is a victory for free-speech rights, opined USA Today columnist Ingrid Jacques.
■ Supreme Court justices upheld a federal law that criminalizes encouraging illegal immigration.
■ Supreme Court justices upheld a federal law that criminalizes encouraging illegal immigration.
Posts man. Elon Musk, citing data-scraping concerns, adjusted Twitter rules by limiting the daily number of posts users can read.
■ Twitter CEO Elon Musk is the worst free-speech hero ever, declared journalist Brad Polumbo in a Daily Beast commentary.
■ Believe it or not, a cage-match battle between tech billionaires Musk and Zuckerberg is starting to take shape.
■ After employees complained of religious discrimination, Google distanced itself from a company-sponsored drag performance at a Pride event.
■ A Florida law restricting drag performances is blocked by a District judge.
■ Twitter CEO Elon Musk is the worst free-speech hero ever, declared journalist Brad Polumbo in a Daily Beast commentary.
■ Believe it or not, a cage-match battle between tech billionaires Musk and Zuckerberg is starting to take shape.
■ After employees complained of religious discrimination, Google distanced itself from a company-sponsored drag performance at a Pride event.
■ A Florida law restricting drag performances is blocked by a District judge.
Sunday driver. The U.S. Supreme Court granted protections for workers who seek religious accommodations, such as taking the Sabbath off.
■ In ruling on a “true threats” case, Supreme Court justices have made it harder to convict someone of making threats of violence.
■ Justice Clarence Thomas renewed his attacks on a 1964 landmark libel decision in his threats-case dissent.
■ Margaret Gilleo, who took her antiwar yard-sign battle all the way to the Supreme Court, has died.
■ “I’m just not going to quit,” a school librarian told 100 others about fighting book bans during the American Library Association’s annual meeting.
Agents of shield. Bipartisan lawmakers have made another attempt to pass a federal “shield law” that protects reporters from having to disclose confidential sources.
■ A gag order in the University of Idaho slayings case has been narrowed but not lifted by a District judge.
■ A ban on per-signature payment for ballot initiatives is constitutional, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.
■ Fox News ushered out Geraldo Rivera with
a tribute while the longtime journalist claimed he was fired.
■ South Carolina’s oldest newspaper has explored new ways for newspapers to survive.Lying around. In a current climate of disinformation, nobody needs to ask the government to enforce the truth, explained Angel Eduardo in a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) essay.
■ A new generation of Chatbots may break through the guardrails of free speech.
■ A new generation of Chatbots may break through the guardrails of free speech.
■ Donald Trump’s Faith and Freedom
Coalition speech was un-American, but this country’s freedoms allowed it, declared
Fresno State University professor Andrew Fiala.
■ The White House condemned the online harassment campaign that targeted a Wall Street Journal reporter after she asked India’s prime minister about his human-rights record.
■ In light of recent book banning, well-known authors have joined an anti-censorship effort to bring attention to the McCarthy-era Freedom to Read Statement.
