Free Speech
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Only two genders? Jesus is only savior? School district won't tell court they're protected speech
First Circuit implies promoting sexual binary might harm nonbinary students, but won't give schools "total deference" to censor students for sharing beliefs.
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Campus speech policies simultaneously getting better and worse: report
"Overbroad" harassment policies drove "red light" ratings in Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's annual review of universities. USC belatedly dropped ban on "offensive jokes" that earned bad rating.
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Cuomo vs. Cuomo: NRA speech case divides regulators for father-and-son New York governors
SCOTUS briefs favor gun rights group against blacklist pressure on insurers, banks. Not even Biden administration is 100% behind Empire State. Pro-life pregnancy center network says it just lost insurance for same reason.
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Judges skeptical that HHS won't punish religious doctors for refusing 'gender affirming care'
DOJ claims dissenting pediatricians and Catholic physicians don't have reasonable fear of punishment, but 6th Circuit judges call that "hard to believe" based on HHS statements and theorize investigation itself is "the punishment."
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Conservative outlets, Texas sue State Department for funding their censorship, undermining state law
State's Global Engagement Center has "funded, promoted and/or marketed" NewsGuard and Global Disinformation Index, who brand Daily Wire, The Federalist "risky" to starve them of ad revenue, suit claims.
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GOP-led state AG's demand financial info firms stop backing efforts to ‘De-Bank’ conservatives
Banks often use “reputational risk” or “hate speech” policies to target customers based on politics, the AGs' letter states. Bank of America canceled the accounts of Indigenous Advance, a Tennessee-based Christian nonprofit earlier this year because it “no longer aligns with the bank’s risk tolerance.”
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Gawker redux? Thiel-funded Rumble joins Musk in suing speech police for driving away advertisers
Rumble and X among few platforms safe for sharing viewpoints at odds with elite orthodoxy, from Dublin riots after stabbing of children to New York City's odd COVID statistics.
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Jordan alleges Biden White House also pressured Google to censor Americans via YouTube
Documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee allege that the White House specifically worked with YouTube to censor "misinformation" about COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccine.
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'Censorship-Industrial Complex' architect suggested tanking Tesla after Musk purchased Twitter
Tesla shareholders should be "really angry" at Musk for crossing regulators that demand more censorship, Stanford Internet Observatory leader said while warning Musk could cripple misinformation research.
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California college district scrambles after judge greenlights First Amendment suit against DEI rules
State community college chancellor made "disingenuous" claim the regulations are "aspirational" when "their plain language" requires faculty "to express a particular message," magistrate judge says, recommending injunction.
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ACLU sues Florida over the banning of pro-Palestinian student groups
A spokesperson for DeSantis has argued that the governor does have a right to disband the groups.
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Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads claiming 2020 election was rigged
Meta officials reportedly made the decision based on free speech concerns after considering previously contested U.S. elections.
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Speech tax? Library forced gender-ideology critics to pay for cops at event with no known threats
"I was led to believe that the police received intel that there were threats of violence" against Rhode Island event with activist "Billboard Chris" Elston, but emails suggest otherwise, organizer fumes.