1st Amendment

A Trump Appointee Blocks the President’s Banishment of Disfavored News Outlets

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From “reason.com” U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly is skeptical of the belated “national security” rationale for banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.This morning, a federal judge in the District of Columbia temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, ordering restoration of

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Section 230 Repeal Bill Could Put Online Speech At Risk

1st Amendment, Big Brother Surveillance, Government /

From “reclaimthenet.org” The bill targets Big Tech, but its first casualties could be the small sites that cannot afford a lawsuit. US Representatives Mark DeSaulnier and Jimmy Patronis have introduced a bill to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Act, that generally protects online platforms and services from liability for third party content. The two

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The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It

1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, Government, Law Enforcement, Police, Tyranny, Vigilance /

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. “What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the

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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

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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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