When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson’s telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any […]
Platform Access Is a Civil Right…
PayPal Blacklists Free Speech YouTube Alternative ‘BitChute’…
Payment processing service PayPal has blacklisted free speech YouTube alternative “BitChute,” stopping the platform from receiving or sending any money through its service, which BitChute used as its main payment processor. BitChute blames the action on its “stand against the current trend in censorship.” BitChute announced the blacklisting in a blog post, Wednesday, declaring, “A […]
DOJ SJW Employee Allison Hrabar’s Conduct Being Reviewed by DOJ…
The Justice Department is reviewing the conduct of an employee who helped chase Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from a Mexican restaurant on Tuesday, but First Amendment scholars say that she may be immune from workplace consequences. Allison Hrabar, a Justice Department paralegal specialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, helped organize a […]
SCOTUS: Court Rules 7 – 2 for Baker in Same-Sex-Wedding-Cake Case…
The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who refused to make a custom cake for a same-sex couple because he believed that doing so would violate his religious beliefs. This was one of the most anticipated decisions of the term, and it was relatively narrow: Although Phillips prevailed today, […]
Axed Professor Who Called Sandy Hook a Hoax to Argue Free Speech Rights Were Violated…
A fired Florida Atlantic University professor who once said the Sandy Hook massacre was staged by the government to take away gun rights will try to convince the jury he was unlawfully dismissed from his position last year. James Tracy, a former tenured professor at the university, claims his free speech rights were violated by […]
Trump’s CIA Director Pompeo, WikiLeaks, Explicitly Threatens Speech & Press Freedoms…
In February, after Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. media were the “enemy of the people,” the targets of his insult exploded with indignation, devoting wall-to-wall media coverage to what they depicted as a grave assault on press freedoms more befitting of a tyranny. By stark and disturbing contrast, the media reaction yesterday was far […]
‘Fake News’ Campaign Nothing Else But ‘Filtering Out Uncomfortable Opinions’…
The head of the German Permanent Conference of Social-Legal Mass Media, Maren Müller, revealed in an interview with Sputnik Germany how her organization struggles with biased coverage of events in the media and shared her attitude toward the recent “fake news” initiatives…
Bill To Protect Freedom of Speech Online Heads to President’s Desk…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act, which now heads to the President’s Desk for approval, is needed after a number of consumers have found themselves in court, fighting multi-million dollar lawsuits for leaving negative – but truthful – reviews of companies’ services on sites like Yelp or TripAdvisor…
U.S. Casts One of Three Votes Against U.N. Resolution Condemning Nazism…
The Unites States says it was one of three countries to vote against a United Nations rights resolution that denounces the glorification of Nazism and other racially-charged trends around the world…
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