First Amendment
Florida Pays $485K to Biologist Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post
A shorebird biologist’s firing over a private Instagram post turned into one of the sharpest federal tests of government employee speech rights in years.
Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control
The British speech regulator proved it doesn’t understand the internet.
Berenson Wins Settlement and First Amendment Admission Over Twitter Ban
A check and a written confession make this the first time the government has paid an American for coercing a social media company into censorship.
Meta Will Fight Ofcom Over the Math, Just Not the Censorship
The company that could most credibly challenge Britain’s online speech regime is instead asking a London court to please use a different revenue column.
Paris Prosecutors Move to Criminally Charge Musk and xAI
The investigation started with an algorithm complaint from a Macron ally and now includes charges ranging from Holocaust denial to child exploitation.
The Subpoena as Speech Suppressor: Supreme Court Sides with First Choice
The unanimous decision revives a fight over donor lists that the Court has been losing patience with since 1958.
MembersAmazon Tried to Hide a Book and Made It Famous Instead
The lesson Amazon keeps relearning is that nothing sells a novel quite like declaring it unsellable.
Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Social Media Law on First Amendment Grounds
The same judge blocked the same state’s second attempt to regulate online speech in as many years.
Judge Blocks Government Pressure on Apple, Meta Over ICE Tracking
The order stops federal officials from leaning on the platforms but leaves Apple and Facebook free to keep the deletions in place.
DOJ Blocks France’s X Probe, Citing First Amendment
The refusal puts American mutual-assistance treaties off the table for European speech prosecutions, and Paris is the first to find out.
A Court Banned a Man from ChatGPT. No One Asked If That’s Constitutional.
A California judge just decided who gets to use ChatGPT, and the person banned from it wasn’t even in the courtroom.
Secret Grand Jury Convened to Unmask Anonymous Government Critic on Reddit
The government lost its case in open court, so it moved the whole thing behind closed doors.