Speech
UK Police Arrested 62,199 People Over Online Speech in Five Years
Britain’s speech police have been busy, and the map of enforcement is anything but even.
Nick Shirley Sues California Officials Over "Stop Nick Shirley Act"
Shirley’s challenge goes to the core of the First Amendment: whether California can empower people to trigger state-backed takedown demands against lawful reporting.
Pornhub Is Standing Alone Against Utah’s Anti-VPN Rule
Utah’s age-verification law creates a compliance problem for websites that may have no reliable way to know where a VPN user actually is.
California Legislature Passes Online Age Verification Bill
The vote was unanimous, but the privacy backlash is only getting started.
New Hampshire GRANITE Act Would Shield Protected Speech From Foreign Enforcement
A state level answer to the increasingly global business of policing speech.
ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox Given Four Months to Meet New EU Censorship Obligations
Four months to translate Europe’s broadest internet speech rules into operational policy.
Judge Quashes Subpoenas Seeking Kiwi Farms Users’ Identities
The First Amendment does not require the internet to be polite before it protects speech.
YouTube’s Account Enforcement Practices Face Possible FTC Lawsuit
The platform’s public rulebook is now being compared with what happens behind the curtain.
Appeals Court Reopens Challenge to Tennessee Digital ID Law
Tennessee’s age gate now gets another hearing, with online speech and compliance costs back in the frame.
Federal GRANITE Act Targets Foreign Censorship Orders in US
Foreign censors have discovered that sending threatening emails to US platforms is cheap. Michael Rulli’s bill is designed to make the next step considerably more expensive.
New York Social Media Law Survives X Lawsuit
New York’s law stops short of telling platforms what to censor, but it gives the Attorney General a remarkably detailed window into how they decide what survives online.
Brazil Wants Discord to Pay $97 Million and Expand Age Verification Digital ID
Brazil says it is protecting children, but its demands could require Discord to know far more about who its users actually are.