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| Title/Subject | Source | Publication | Date | Keywords |
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| Georgetown Abandons Its Free-Speech Policy Over Ilya Shapiro - Dumb tweets for me, but not for thee. - by Jonathon Chait | https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/georgetown-free-speech-ilya-shapiro-law-affirmative-action-lesser-black-woman.html | NYMag | 07/05/2022 | georgetown,academia |
| The Silenced Students in the “Free Speech” Debate Marginalized people at universities across the country are trying to reframe the conversation around censorship and expression. | https://www.thenation.com/article/society/free-speech-harassment-censorship/ | The Nation | 07/05/2022 | academia |
| Free-speech group will spend millions to promote First Amendment cases Some backers see FIRE moving to take on fights ceded by ACLU. | https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/06/free-speech-group-first-amendment-00037320 | Politico | 07/03/2022 | fire,aclu |
| George Washington University Officials Defend Clarence Thomas' Free Expression Rights | https://reason.com/2022/07/05/george-washington-university-officials-defend-clarence-thomas-free-expression-rights/ | Reason | 07/05/2022 | first amendment |
| FIRE announces $75 million expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy, defense | https://www.thefire.org/fire-announces-75-million-expansion-into-off-campus-free-speech-advocacy-defense/ | Fire | 07/05/2022 | fire |
| Elon Musk promotes free speech at Twitter all-hands meeting, says the media 'almost never' gets it right | https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-promotes-free-speech-twitter-meeting-media | Fox | 07/05/2022 | twitter, musk |
| How Israel's Campaign Against the 'Apartheid' Label Threatens Free Speech -Sarah Leah Whitson | https://dawnmena.org/how-israels-campaign-against-the-apartheid-label-threatens-free-speech/ | Dawn | 07/05/2022 | Israel, Palestine, apartheid, antisemitism |
| Trump's "free speech" platform Truth Social bans users who post footage from Jan. 6 hearings The site professes to be a safe haven for unfettered speech – unless that speech is anti-Trump | https://www.salon.com/2022/06/13/free-speech-platform-truth-social-bans-users-post-footage-from-jan-6-hearings/ | Salon | 06/13/2022 | trump, truth social |
| America Has a Free Speech Problem | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html | New York Times | 03/18/2022 | cancel culture |
| Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee The American right has lost the plot on free speech. -By David French | https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/republican-dont-say-gay-bill-florida/629516/ | The Atlantic | 04/15/2022 | conservative censorship, speech code |
| How The Dobbs Decision Will Lead To Attacks On Free Speech; Or, Why Democrats Need To Stop Undermining Free Speech - Mike Masnick | https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/05/how-the-dobbs-decision-will-lead-to-attacks-on-free-speech-or-why-democrats-need-to-stop-undermining-free-speech/ | Techdirt | 07/06/2022 | democrats, legislation |
| Stop Saying It's Okay To Censor Because 'You Can't Yell Fire In A Crowded Theater' - Mike Masnick | https://www.techdirt.com/2012/11/06/stop-saying-its-okay-to-censor-because-you-cant-yell-fire-crowded-theater/ | Techdirt | 06/12/2012 | history, Oliver Wendell Holmes , legislation |
| The Bipartisan Attacks On The Internet Are Easily Understood If You Realize They Just Want To Control Speech Online - Mike Masnick | https://www.techdirt.com/2021/12/13/bipartisan-attacks-internet-are-easily-understood-if-you-realize-they-just-want-to-control-speech-online/ | Techdirt | 12/13/2021 | democrats, republicans, legislation |
| Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it. | https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech | greenwald.substack.com | 07/06/2022 | democrats, tech, facebook, google, gafam |
| What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong About Free Speech Laugh off concerns about “cancel culture” all you want. But even recent history shows how vital free speech is to winning social justice. -Ben Burgis | https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-the-left-keeps-getting-wrong-about-free-speech | Daily Beast | 04/02/2022 | core value, history, harper's letter, cancel culture |
| For the left, a wake-up call on free speech- Jonathan Zimmerman | https://thehill.com/opinion/education/566119-for-the-left-a-wake-up-call-on-free-speech/ | The Hill | 08/03/2021 | blowback, republican, democrat |
| Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published—or even written. -Kat Rosenberg | https://reason.com/2022/07/05/rise-of-the-sensitivity-reader/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email | Reason | 07/07/2022 | cancel culture, literature |
| Colorado school must face lawsuit by student expelled after Holocaust post | https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/colorado-school-must-face-lawsuit-by-student-expelled-after-holocaust-post-2022-07-06/ | Reuters | 07/07/2022 | antisemitism, high school, legislation |
| Maya Forstater was discriminated against over gender-critical beliefs, tribunal rules Researcher lost job at thinktank after tweeting that transgender women could not change their biological sex | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/06/maya-forstater-was-discriminated-against-over-gender-critical-beliefs-tribunal-rules | The Guardian | 07/07/2022 | transgender, cancel culture, UK |
| Wisconsin justices block name change for transgender woman on sex offender registry Neither the woman’s Eighth Amendment nor First Amendment rights are violated by her being banned from changing her given male name to match her gender identity, the majority said. | https://www.courthousenews.com/wisconsin-justices-block-name-change-for-transgender-woman-on-sex-offender-registry/ | Courthouse News Service | 07/07/2022 | transgender, prison |
| Netflix releases Dave Chappelle's speech slamming transphobic joke critics | https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/netflix-releases-dave-chappelles-speech-slamming-transphobic-joke-critics/ar-AAZmDTm | MSN | 07/08/2022 | transgender,comedy,art,cancel culture |
| The Fight Over Truth Also Has a Red State, Blue State Divide Several states run by Democrats are pushing for stiffer rules on the spread of false information, while Republican-run states are pushing for fewer rules. | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/business/disinformation-democrats-republicans.html | New York Times | 07/09/2022 | democrats,, republicans, litigation |
| First Amendment advocates respond to a new Arizona law limiting recording of police | https://www.kuow.org/stories/first-amendment-advocates-respond-to-a-new-arizona-law-limiting-recording-of-police | NPR | 07/10/2022 | first amendment, police, arizona |
| Why Iowa needs a new law to protect your right to free expression on matters of public concern | https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/from-the-editor/2022/07/10/iowa-needs-anti-slaap-law-protect-your-first-amendment-rights/10014676002/ | Des Moines Register | 07/10/2022 | rhetorical hyperbole, iowa, defamation |
| Policymakers Need To Realize How Any Internet Regulation Will Impact Speech -Mike Masnick | https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/11/policymakers-need-to-realize-how-any-internet-regulation-will-impact-speech/ | Techdirt | 07/11/2022 | cybercrime, blasphemy, UN, tech, hate speech |
| James O’Keefe Doesn’t Care About Free Speech- By Ben Burgis | https://jacobin.com/2022/07/james-okeefe-free-speech-labor-unions-job-security-project-veritas | Jacobin | 07/12/2022 | project veritas, |
| State by State, We’re Making Progress Against Anti-Speech Lawsuits By Joe Mullin | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/state-state-were-making-progress-against-anti-speech-lawsuits | Electronic Frontier Foundation | 07/13/2022 | slapp, litigation,aclu |
| Yet Another Court Affirms the First Amendment Right To Record Police The Supreme Court still refuses to weigh in on the issue. by Emma Camp | https://reason.com/2022/07/13/yet-another-court-affirms-the-first-amendment-right-to-record-police/ | Reason | 07/13/2022 | litigation,police,first amendment |
| LAWSUIT: Professor sues University of Washington after admins punish him for ‘inappropriate’ opinion | https://www.thefire.org/lawsuit-professor-sues-university-of-washington-after-admins-punish-him-for-inappropriate-opinion/ | Fire | 07/13/2022 | litigation, academia |
| What Is Section 230 and How Is It Different Than the First Amendment? Although they overlap, Section 230 ultimately protects more online speech than the First Amendment. -by Andy Jung | https://fee.org/articles/what-is-section-230-and-how-is-it-different-than-the-first-amendment/ | Fee | 07/13/2022 | section 230, first amendment, musk,twitter,tech |
| More Than Two Thirds Of States Are Pushing Highly Controversial (And Likely Unconstitutional) Bills To Moderate Speech Online -by Mike Masnik | https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/08/more-than-two-thirds-of-states-are-pushing-highly-controversial-and-likely-unconstitutional-bills-to-moderate-speech-online/ | Techdirt | 07/08/2022 | tech, legislation |
| Push to rein in social media sweeps the states Lawmakers in 34 red and blue states want to crack down on how online companies handle users' content. But those efforts are colliding with the First Amendment. -Rebecca Kern | https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/01/social-media-sweeps-the-states-00043229 | Politico | 07/01/2022 | tech, legislation |
| As Anti-BDS Bills Become the Norm, ACLU Takes Free Speech Fight to the Supreme Court -by Jessica Buxbaum | https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/as-anti-bds-bills-become-the-norm-aclu-takes-free-speech-fight-to-the-supreme-court/ | Toward Freedom | 07/14/2022 | BDS, Israel,palestine |
| Technology Twitter sues Elon Musk for pulling out of $44B deal to buy company The action will likely set the stage for a drawn-out battle as the company seeks to have the Tesla CEO follow through pay a $1 billion break-up fee. By Myah Ward | https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/12/twitter-sues-elon-musk-44b-deal-buy-company-00045476 | Politico | 07/14/2022 | tech,musk,twitter |
| Chris Hedges, Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Paul Jay and Daniel Ellsberg on Assange | https://theanalysis.news/chris-hedges-edward-snowden-noam-chomsky-glenn-greenwald-paul-jay-and-daniel-ellsberg-on-assange/ | theanalysis.news | 07/11/2022 | press,assange |
| Flight Attendant Triumphs Over TWU Union and Southwest in Suit About Illegal Firing; Jury Awards $5.1 Million in Damages | https://www.nrtw.org/news/carter-twu-victory-07142022/ | NRTW | 07/14/2022 | unions,cancel culture, abortion,at-will employment |
| Guide: Decentralized Social Media Networks: All You Need To Know by Hassan Mehmood | https://tokenhell.com/decentralized-social-media-networks-all-you-need-to-know/ | Tokenhell | 07/16/2022 | blockchain, tech |
| 'Who Really Benefits From the First Amendment?' My conversation with Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU - by Tara Henley | https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/who-really-benefits-from-the-first | tarahenley.substack.com | 07/15/2022 | core arguments |
| Free speech does not equal violence: Part 1 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff | https://www.thefire.org/free-speech-does-not-equal-violence-part-1-of-answers-to-bad-arguments-against-free-speech-from-nadine-strossen/ | Fire | 09/01/2021 | core arguments |
| Who Really Benefits From the First Amendment? The purpose of free speech is to give the marginalized an escape hatch from the status quo, not to entrench political power by Nadine Strossen | https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/who-really-benefits-from-the-first-amendment | Tablet | 07/13/2022 | core arguments |
| Former ACLU president says censoring hate speech can backfire – just like it did in Nazi Germany - by Laura E. Adkins | https://www.jta.org/2020/09/03/opinion/former-aclu-president-says-censoring-hate-speech-can-backfire-just-like-it-did-in-nazi-germany | Jewish Telegraphic Agency | 09/03/2020 | hate speech, nazis |
| Former UVM President Explores Free Speech in New Book | https://www.uvm.edu/news/ovpr/former-uvm-president-explores-free-speech-new-book | UVM | 07/19/2022 | academia |
| California’s Social Media Bill Flies In The Face Of The First Amendment - from the you-can-protect-children-without-infringing-on-the-1st-amendment dept by Andy Jung | https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/19/californias-social-media-bill-flies-in-the-face-of-the-first-amendment/ | Techdirt | 07/20/2022 | tech, AB 2408 |
| Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Platforms Are Censoring Nude Content. Here’s Why You Should Care - by Paige Collings | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/self-proclaimed-free-speech-platforms-are-censoring-nude-content-heres-why-you | EFF | 07/20/2022 | tech, nudity, conservative censorship |
| The ‘Dirty Quid Pro Quo’ Between Democrats and Big Tech -By Max Jones | https://scheerpost.com/2022/07/20/the-dirty-quid-pro-quo-between-democrats-and-big-tech/ | Scheerpost | 07/20/2022 | tech,democrats Section 230 |
| Lean Out with Tara- HenleyTranscript: Jonathan Rauch My conversation with the Washington journalist and author of The Constitution of Knowledge | https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/transcript-jonathan-rauch | tarahenley.substack.com | 07/20/2022 | safetyism,cancel culture,gay marriage |
| No, Canceling Chappelle Is Not a 'Win for Free Speech' by Greg Lukianoff | https://www.newsweek.com/no-canceling-chappelle-not-win-free-speech-opinion-1727721 | Newsweek | 07/26/2022 | transgender, self-censorship, artists, comedy |
| Ukraine Government issues blacklist of ‘Russian propagandists’ The list includes a number of prominent Western intellectuals - by Finn McRedmond | https://unherd.com/thepost/ukraine-government-issues-blacklist-of-russian-propagandists/ | Unherd | 07/25/2022 | ukraine, disinformation, nato |
| Trump's purported free speech social media platform Truth Social is hiding user posts, threatening to create a 'curated echo chamber,' research group finds -by Kimberly Leonard | https://www.businessinsider.com/truth-social-is-shadow-banning-posts-despite-promise-of-free-speech-2022-8 | Business Insider | 08/02/2022 | trump, truth social, shadow ban |
| EXPLAINER: Is Alex Jones’ Trial About Free Speech Rights? Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones arrived at the start of his Texas defamation trial for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School attack a hoax with the words “Save the 1st” scrawled on tape covering his mouth. | https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-08-02/explainer-is-alex-jones-trial-about-free-speech-rights | AP | 08/02/2022 | infowars, sandy hook, litigation |
| Vlaming v. West Point School District | https://www.aclu.org/cases/vlaming-v-west-point-school-district | ACLU | 08/02/2022 | compelled speech, schools, pronouns |
| Prison Officials Remove Ban on Attica Book, Except for 2 Crucial Pages In response to the author’s First Amendment lawsuit, officials said the alteration was necessary for “security reasons.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/nyregion/attica-book-ban-blood-in-the-water.html | New York Times | 08/02/2022 | prison |
| UK Man Arrested For ‘Malicious Communications’ After Posting Meme Mocking the Transgender Flag | https://fee.org/articles/uk-man-arrested-for-malicious-communications-after-posting-meme-mocking-the-transgender-flag/ | Fee | 08/02/2022 | UK, twitter |
| Animal rights activists sue Beaver County for allegedly violating First Amendment rights | https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/animal-rights-activists-sue-beaver-county-for-allegedly-violating-first-amendment-rights | Fox13 | 08/04/2022 | animal cruelty, animal rights |
| Discrimination and Freedom of Belief in the Sex and Gender Debate - by Alasdair Henderson | https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2022/08/03/discrimination-and-freedom-of-belief-in-the-sex-and-gender-debate/ | UK Human Rights Blog | 08/03/2022 | transgender, employment law |
| Trump’s New Free Speech Network Has Already Banned Any Criticism of Itself - by Jamie Ross | https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-free-speech-network-has-already-banned-any-criticism-of-itself | Daily Beast | 08/07/2022 | social media, trump, truth social |
| Dr. Seuss' Books Gained Popularity After They Were Removed And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and other titles shot up Amazon's bestseller list after being self-censored by Dr. Seuss Enterprises. -by Nick Gillespie | https://reason.com/2022/08/08/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-mulberry-street/ | Reason | 08/08/2022 | book banning, dr seuss |
| Free Speech on Trial - Matt Stoller Speech is about the right to say what you want. But being heard is all about market power. That's why two antitrust cases, one in publishing and one in online video, matter. | https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/21st-century-censorship | mattstoller.substack.com | 08/10/2022 | publishing, monopoly, amazon |
| Students sue college president who invented rules to ban conservative flyers - FIRE | https://www.thefire.org/students-sue-college-president-who-invented-rules-to-ban-conservative-flyers/ | Fire | 08/11/2022 | academia, litigation, clovis |
| The ‘Institute For Free Speech’ Seems Confused About Free Speech Online -Mike Masnik | https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/10/the-institute-for-free-speech-seems-confused-about-free-speech-online/ | Techdirt | 08/11/2022 | tech, section 230 |
| First Amendment Scholars Say Jan. 6 Rioter Is Subject to ‘Constitutional Command’ Disqualifying Insurrectionists from Holding Public Office - by Marisa Sarnoff | https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/first-amendment-scholars-say-jan-6-rioter-is-subject-to-constitutional-command-disqualifying-insurrectionists-from-holding-public-office/ | Law & Crime | 08/11/2022 | January 6 |
| Hard-left academics are accused of stifling free speech on campus with 'witch hunt' against staff over gender beliefs | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11100855/Hard-left-academics-accused-witch-hunt-against-staff-gender-beliefs.html | Daily Mail Online | 08/11/2022 | transgender, academia |
| Glassdoor Ordered to ‘Out’ Some Anonymous Users -By Roy Maurer | https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/glassdoor-ordered-to-out-some-anonymous-users-zuru-new-zealand.aspx | SHRM | 08/11/2022 | employment, tech, glassdoor, international |
| Kan. school district’s satanic clothing prohibition infringes free speech, asserts FFRF | https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/41389-kan-school-district-s-satanic-clothing-prohibition-infringes-free-speech-asserts-ffrf | FFRF | 08/11/2022 | religion |
| ‘The police are now the paramilitary wing of the trans lobby’ | https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/08/10/the-police-are-now-the-paramilitary-wing-of-the-trans-lobby/ | Spiked | 08/11/2022 | U.K.,communications act,tech,facebook |
| Activists lose challenge to NSW laws banning secret filming of animal cruelty High court rules laws criminalising secretly recorded footage and | https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug/10/animal-rights-activists-lose-challenge-to-nsw-laws-banning-secret-filming-of-animal-cruelty | Guardian | 08/10/2022 | animal rights, australia |
| Charleston Animal Society calls for ‘anti-SLAPP’ law after lawsuit victory | https://www.live5news.com/2022/08/11/charleston-animal-society-calls-anti-slapp-law-after-lawsuit-victory/ | live5news | 08/11/2022 | SLAPP,animal rights |
| Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues The Rhetoric and the Impact of Two Flamboyant Has-Beens: Boris Johnson and Donald Trump – Will They Rise Again? | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rhetoric-and-the-impact-of-two-flamboyant-has-beens-tickets-397032864987 | The Free Speech Project | 08/11/2022 | event |
| Students Sue California College over Censorship of Anti-Communist Flyers | https://www.nationalreview.com/news/students-sue-california-college-over-censorship-of-anti-communist-flyers/ | National Review | 08/11/2022 | academia, litigation, clovis |
| PEN America Reels from Shock and Horror Over Brutal Attack on Salman Rushdie | https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-reels-from-shock-and-horror-over-brutal-attack-on-salman-rushdie/ | PEN | 08/12/2022 | Rushdie |
| States want to better patrol social media. These are the challenges. New York's laws will take months to have an effect and could face lawsuits over free speech concerns. | https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/13/states-social-media-guns-00047794 | Politico | 08/13/2022 | tech |
| “Some are More Equal Than Others”: University of Oregon Sued After Blocking Professor Who Posted “All Men are Created Equal | https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/13/some-are-more-equal-than-others-university-of-oregon-sued-after-blocking-professor-for-posting-all-men-are-created-equal/comment-page-1/ | jonathanturley.org | 08/13/2022 | academia,race |
| Vaccine Gadfly Alex Berenson Claims the White House Got Him Banned From Twitter, and He Has the Receipts - By Kevin Downey Jr. | https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/08/12/vaccine-gadfly-alex-berenson-claims-the-white-house-got-him-banned-from-twitter-and-he-has-the-receipts-n1620584 | PJ Media | 08/12/2022 | tech,covid |
| Jewish Studies Program looks at free speech against incitement to violence -by Sydney Shuler | https://dailyprogress.com/news/august12/jewish-studies-program-looks-at-free-speech-against-incitement-to-violence/article_47eed27e-19c5-11ed-9df2-d32d0a580e40.html | Daily Progress | 08/12/2022 | hate speech,aclu |
| Mothers Behind Book-Banning Campaign Claim Their First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated The self-dubbed Mama Bears filed a federal lawsuit alleging that by not being allowed to read sexually explicit material aloud at school board meetings, they themselves are being censored. | Blasphemhttps://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-book-banning-mama-bears-lawsuit | Pro Publica | 08/12/2022 | book banning, litigation |
| Fired ISU Coach Advances Lawsuit Over ‘All Lives Matter’ Sign | https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/fired-isu-coach-advances-lawsuit-over-all-lives-matter-sign | Bloomberg Law | 08/12/2022 | academia |
| The larger legacy of Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ -By Jacob Mchangama | https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-legacy-of-salman-rushdie-20220814-wwe3anpf2nen3erehkahbrjg7u-story.html | Daily News | 08/14/2022 | rushdie |
| Salman Rushdie’s Stabbing Shows the Danger of Conflating Words With ‘Violence’ - by Greg Lukianoff | https://www.thedailybeast.com/salman-rushdies-stabbing-shows-the-danger-of-conflating-words-with-violence | Daily Beast | 08/13/2022 | rushdie |
| Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation. -by Jeremy W. Peters | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html | New York Times | 08/13/2022 | litigation, defamation |
| Bing is censoring search results for Alex Berenson’s “Unreported Truths” Substack - by Tom Parker | https://reclaimthenet.org/bing-censoring-alex-berenson-unreported-truths-substack/ | Reclaim the Net | 08/15/2022 | comedy, tech, search, bing, duckduckgo |
| Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitter | The Guardian | 08/16/2022 | saudi arabia |
| TheTruthSpy exposed: This spyware lookup tool says if your Android device was compromised -byZack Whittaker | https://techcrunch.com/pages/thetruthspy-investigation/ | TechCrunch | 08/17/2022 | tech, surveillance |
| UK Columnist: Because Salman Rushdie Got Stabbed, We Should Regulate Online Speech, Get Rid Of Anonymity, And Hold Social Media Responsible -by Mike Masnick | https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/17/uk-columnist-because-salman-rushdie-got-stabbed-we-should-regulate-online-speech-get-rid-of-anonymity-and-hold-social-media-responsible/ | Techdirt | 08/18/2022 | |
| 'Blatant abuse of power': Ousted Florida prosecutor sues DeSantis over suspension Warren argues his First Amendment rights were violated and DeSantis abused power -By Matt Dixon | https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/17/warren-sues-desantis-in-federal-court-over-suspension-00052345 | Politico | 08/18/2022 | litigation, employment |
| ACLU-backed lawsuit targets Florida law limiting race-related education in public colleges -by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf | https://www.highereddive.com/news/aclu-backed-lawsuit-targets-florida-law-limiting-race-related-education-in/630027/ | Higher Ed Dive | 08/19/2022 | ACLU, academia |
| Schoolteachers' First Amendment Rights to Publicly Criticize Transgender Pronoun Policies, including saying "I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa." -by Eugene Volokh | https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/18/schoolteachers-first-amendment-rights-to-publicly-criticize-transgender-pronoun-policies/ | Reason | 08/19/2022 | transgender, schools |
| Legal Advisor: When Is Free Speech Hate Speech? -by Ann W. Latner, JD | https://www.clinicaladvisor.com/home/my-practice/legal-advisor/when-is-free-speech-hate-speech/ | Clinical Advisor | 08/18/2022 | litigation, at will |
| Former Austin Fire Department Chaplain Sues City, Alleging First Amendment Infringement-by Hudson Callender | https://thetexan.news/former-austin-fire-department-chaplain-sues-city-alleging-first-amendment-infringement/ | The Texan | 08/18/2022 | litigation, employment, women's sports |
| Judge says Utah's transgender law likely violates constitution The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati sued on behalf of three transgender students. -by Kim Jarrett | https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/judge-says-utahs-transgender-law-likely-violates-constitution | Just the News | 08/19/2022 | ACLU, Wilson Sonsini, tech lawyers, Utah, litigation, sports |
| Federal Court Rules Against Florida Law Banning "Woke" Workplace Training The court ruled - correctly - that the law violates the First Amendment. -by Ilya Somin | https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/21/federal-court-rules-against-florida-law-banning-woke-workplace-training/ | Reason | 08/19/2022 | litigation, Florida |
| Book Bans Don’t Surprise Me. That’s Why They Must Stop. -by Logan Richman | https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/book-bans-dont-surprise-me-thats-why-they-must-stop/ | Georgetown Free Speech Project | 08/23/2022 | book banning |
| Twitter versus Government: Remedy of challenge against blocking orders is illusory -by Shadan Farasat and Dhruv Bhatnagar | https://theleaflet.in/twitter-versus-government-remedy-of-challenge-against-blocking-orders-is-illusory/ | The Leaflet | 08/23/2022 | twitter, India |
| Meta Removes Fake Accounts Tied to Pro-US Influence Campaign Twitter, Instagram among sites used in propaganda effort Operation included inauthentic personas, fabricated news sites -by Andrew Martin | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-24/meta-removes-fake-accounts-tied-to-pro-us-influence-campaign | Bloomberg | 08/24/2022 | tech |
| Lawsuit filed over Arizona law that bans filming within 8 feet of law enforcement -by Kanishka Singh | https://www.reuters.com/legal/lawsuit-filed-over-arizona-law-that-bans-filming-within-8-feet-law-enforcement-2022-08-24/ | Reuters | 08/24/2022 | police, aclu, litigation |
| Exiled writers reflect on freedom of speech in America in light of Rushdie attack | https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119199533/exiled-writers-reflect-on-freedom-of-speech-in-america-in-light-of-rushdie-attac | NPR | 08/24/2022 | Rushdie, PEN |
| America’s Censored Classrooms | ps://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/ | PEN | 08/17/2022 | legislation, schools |
| Pop singer Gülşen arrested over joke about religious schools An investigation was swiftly opened against the renowned pop singer after the pro-government media resurfaced a video excerpt from a concert months ago, where she joked about the religious vocational schools. | https://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/266332-court-arrests-singer-gulsen-over-joke-about-religious-schools | Bianet | 08/26/2022 | Turkey |
| Federal Court Dismisses Most Counts Against School District in Lawsuit Alleging Coaches ‘Ordered’ Football Player to Eat Pepperoni Pizza- by Elura Nanos | https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/federal-court-refuses-to-dismiss-multi-million-dollar-lawsuit-against-coaches-for-making-football-player-eat-pepperoni-pizza/ | Law and Crime | 08/26/2022 | litigation, school, sports |
| That video of Mount Rushmore for your YouTube channel could now land you in jail — shocking court decision transforms First Amendment rights | https://www.thefire.org/that-video-of-mount-rushmore-for-your-youtube-channel-could-now-land-you-in-jail-shocking-court-decision-transforms-first-amendment-rights/ | Fire | 08/26/2022 | video, national parks |
| Do Laws Against Workplace Harassment Violate Free Speech? There’s little difference between the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Florida’s Stop WOKE Act. -by Eugene Kontorovich | WSJ | 08/25/2022 | dei, legislation | |
| Citing the First Amendment, Va. Judge Rejects Obscenity Proceedings Against Sexually ‘Explicit’ LGBTQ Graphic Novel and Young Adult Romance Book -by Colin Kalmbacher | https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/virginia-judge-rejects-obscenity-proceedings-against-sexually-explicit-lgbtq-graphic-novel-and-young-adult-romance-book/ | Law & Crime | 08/30/2022 | book banning, virginia, litigation |
| Truth Social is strapped for cash and struggling to find new users It’s having a hard time getting Google Play Store approval -by Makena Kelly | https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/30/23329245/truth-social-donald-trump-google-play-store-dwac-spac | The Verge | 08/30/2022 | truth social, trump |
| School district threatened with lawsuit after shutting down student newspaper over LGBTQ2S+ coverage The ACLU claimed the district “blatantly violated” the U.S. constitution - by Nico Lang | https://xtramagazine.com/power/school-district-student-newspaper-235108 | Xtra* | 08/31/2022 | aclu, transgender |
| LAWSUIT: FIRE challenges Stop WOKE Act’s limits on how Florida professors can teach about race, sex -by FIRE | https://www.thefire.org/lawsuit-fire-challenges-stop-woke-acts-limits-on-how-florida-professors-can-teach-about-race-sex/ | Fire | 09/06/2022 | litigation, legislation |
| Free Speech Under Attack (Part III): The Legal Assault on Environmental Activists and the First Amendment On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will hold a hybrid hearing to examine how the fossil fuel industry is weaponizing the law to stifle First Amendment protected speech and stymie efforts to combat climate change by abusing Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participations (SLAPPs) and anti-protest laws. | https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/free-speech-under-attack-part-iii-the-legal-assault-on-environmental-activists | oversight.house.gov | 09/13/2022 | fossil fuel industry, SLAPP, legislation |
| ‘Rapid acceleration’ in US school book censorship leads to 2,500 bans in a year School districts in 32 states banned 1,648 individual titles in the last school year, a report by Pen America found | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/19/us-school-book-censorship-bans-pen-america | The Guardian | 09/19/2022 | litigation, libraries |
| Appeals Court Upholds Texas Social Media 'Censorship' Law The law prohibits social media companies from banning users or blocking posts based on political viewpoints. -by Stephen Musil | https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/appeals-court-upholds-texas-social-media-censorship-law/ | Cnet | 09/18/2022 | tech, legislation |
| Banned in the USA: Banned Books Week Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary - Mickey Huff | https://scheerpost.com/2022/09/19/banned-in-the-usa-banned-books-week-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary/ | Sheerpost | 09/19/2022 | pen |
| PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange - by Chris Hedges | https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/29/pen-america-and-the-betrayal-of-julian-assange/ | Counterpunch | 12/29/2021 | pen |
| 2022 College Free Speech Rankings - Fire | https://reports.collegepulse.com/college-free-speech-rankings-2022 | Fire | 09/29/2022 | academia |
| Federal Court Finds 3rd Iowa Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional -by DAVID PITT, Associated Press | https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-09-27/federal-court-finds-3rd-iowa-ag-gag-law-unconstitutional | US News | 09/27/2022 | ag gag, animal rights |
| Court Strikes Down Iowa Recording Ban Ag-Gag Law | https://food.publicjustice.net/court-strikes-down-iowa-recording-ban-ag-gag-law/ | Public Justice | 09/27/2022 | ag gag, animal rights |
| Hill TV Censors Segment on Rashida Tlaib’s Description of Israel as “Apartheid Government,” Bars Reporter Host Katie Halper recorded a segment defending Tlaib’s accurate portrayal of Israel’s government, but Hill TV’s owners refused to run it. -by Ryan Grim | https://theintercept.com/2022/09/29/hill-tv-israel-apartheid-rashida-tlaib-censorship/ | The Intercept | 09/29/2022 | Israel |
| Jacinda Ardern and the woke war on free speech The New Zealand PM is the kindly face of 21st-century authoritarianism. -by Brendan O'Neill | https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/29/jacinda-ardern-and-the-woke-war-on-free-speech/ | Spiked | 09/29/2022 | New Zealand |
| September 2022: Animal Law Updates that Improved the World for Animals this Month -by Jareb Gleckel | https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/september-2022-animal-law-updates-that-improved-the-world-for-animals-this-month/ | Onegreenplanet | 10/02/2022 | ag gag |
| Social Media Standoff: The Case of Twitter, India and the Fight for Free Speech Online -by Michelle Kelley | https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/social-media-standoff-the-case-of-twitter-india-and-the-fight-for-free-speech-online/ | Onegreenplanet | 10/02/2020 | twitter, india, animals |
| A threat to free speech, hate speech needs to be defined and contained | https://morungexpress.com/a-threat-to-free-speech-hate-speech-needs-to-be-defined-and-contained | morungexpress.com | 10/02/2022 | India |
| Speech police: UK writer Caroline Farrow arrested, accused of posting “offensive” message online Despite government's proposals to stop it, British citizens are still being arrested over alleged speech offenses. -by Tom Parker | https://reclaimthenet.org/caroline-farrow-uk-arrested-insulting-messages/ | Reclaim the Net | 10/04/2022 | UK |
Why no one trusts the police anymore They have embraced trans identity politics at the expense of tackling crime. -by Carrie Clark | https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/04/why-no-one-trusts-the-police-anymore/ | Spiked | 10/04/2022 | UK, police |
| Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of ACLU-NH, honored as First Amendment Award recipient -by Michaela Towfighi | https://www.concordmonitor.com/Loeb-First-Amendment-Gilles-Bissonnette-48243107 | Concord Monitor | 10/04/2022 | ACLU |
| Clark County School District sued by pro-life students over alleged First Amendment violations-by Kim Passoth | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/10/04/clark-county-school-district-sued-by-pro-life-students-over-alleged-first-amendment-violations/ | Fox5 | 10/04/2022 | litigation |
| Are Anti-Discrmination Laws Under Threat from the First Amendment? -by Brianna Gonzalez Ulloa | https://www.davisvanguard.org/2022/10/are-anti-discrmination-laws-under-threat-from-the-first-amendment/ | DavisVanguard | 10/04/2022 | litigation, yeshivas |
| Supreme Court to hear cases that could decide future of internet speech and social media -by Brian Fung | https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/supreme-court-internet-speech-social-media-section-230 | CNN | 10/03/2022 | supreme court |