1st Amendment

Paxton “Child Safety” Plan Puts Legal Speech at Criminal Risk

1st Amendment, Big Brother Surveillance, Digital ID, Government, Technocracy /

From “reclaimthenet.org” The vague standard is chatbots that undermine child safety. The penalty is criminal, not civil. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is currently running for the US Senate, and pushing online digital ID age verification checks in the name of “online safety,” has announced a data center plan that, among other things, vows to “protect children” by

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Appeals Court Upholds Right To Film Police—but Grants Immunity to Cops Who Arrested a Connecticut Videographer

1st Amendment, Law Enforcement, Media, Police /

From “The Free Thought Project” The 2nd Circuit is the latest federal circuit court to find a First Amendment right to record the police. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit issued a landmark ruling Monday that a Connecticut man had a First Amendment right to film a police station from a public sidewalk, but

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Freedom of Speech Dying a Slow Death in Europe

1st Amendment, Censorship, Tyranny /

From “mises.org” For decades, Western democracies operated under a comfortable consensus: censorship was a blunt instrument reserved for authoritarian regimes, while the “free world” relied on open debate, robust dissent, and constitutional safeguards. This sentiment allowed Western leaders to feel superior over the rest of the world, to lecture other countries on democratic principles and,

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A Head for an Eye: The Government’s War on the American People

1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Big Brother Surveillance, Data Centers, Government, Society, Technocracy, Tyranny /

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win

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The Future of Free Speech

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From “brownestone.org” Freedom of speech is an integral aspect of authentic freedom, grounded in the distinctively human capacity to adhere to truth through persuasion rather than imposition. While truth is objective and independent of the knowing subject, it can only be received by the subject freely. We can contrast this with a thinly grounded notion

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Judge Denies Immunity to Texas Cops in Meme Arrest Case

1st Amendment, Big Brother Surveillance, Law Enforcement /

From “reclaimthenet.org” The joke was that two rivals could never endorse each other. The felony charge landed the day after the election. A federal judge has refused to throw out the civil rights lawsuit filed by a Texas journalist arrested over a satirical Facebook meme and declined to grant qualified immunity to the sheriff and investigator who

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Dissent Is Not Disloyalty: The Right and Duty to Criticize the Government

1st Amendment, Censorship, Government, Trump /

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional

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