Democrats seek to institute government monitoring of media
Already giddy with the power they expect to be delivered to them today, Democrats are promising to reinstate government control of public communication to insure... Read more
Category: Free Expression
Jews for Jesus Redux (or, the Second Filing)
Jews for Jesus sues Google over blog SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log... Read more
Best of 2006: Matter Meets Antimatter: Free Speech v. Islam Explodes for Europe
Posted February 2, 2006. Michelle Malkin is running with the story (which I saw first on Instapundit) about a political cartoonist’s depiction of an injured... Read more
Best of 2007: Ideological purity
First posted on January 24, 2007. Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday,... Read more
Speech and — more? — speech re Russ Feingold
Don’t say they’re anything but — what’s the term? — “fair and balanced” over at Randazza’s Legal Satyricon blog when it comes to the post-mortem... Read more
Crunch time on speech — again
Instapundit.com – YES, THERE DOES SEEM TO BE A GROWING POLITICAL CONSENSUS in favor of shutting up the [sic] hoi polloi. I don’t even consider myself... Read more
Universal Declaration of American Rights
Derek Slater of the EFF’s Deep Links blog is unhappy — hat tip to Donna Wentwirth — about “general search warrants” being issued in India... Read more
New York’s MTA Has an IP Obsession
The New York Sun reports that New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has filed to register the phrase “If You See Something, Say Something” — its... Read more
Ten Commandments Achieve Creche Status
We’ve been patiently waiting for this one, and the decision is out, and evidently it’s a doozy! Court Splits on Ten Commandments Displays Says the... Read more
Goldman Sachs, those big losers!
Remember Mike Morgan, the flaky sort who dast challenge the mighty Men of Gold? Now it’s over, like just another paid-back multi-billion dollar loan,... Read more
Speaking of prior restraint!
We toyed a little bit with the very big idea of prior restraint in constitutional law about a week ago. Now Clarice Feldman writes about... Read more
Best of 2010: Sealed with a fist
First posted August 4, 2010. I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit... Read more
Fight for your right to blawg review!
And who better to speak for that right than that right-is-never-right civil libertarian, gadabout and new da-da, my chum Marc Randazza, who’s hosting this week’s... Read more
Best of 2010: Moral rights in Massachusetts
First published April 12, 2010. Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual... Read more