Speech
Retired Police Officer Fined £1,000 Over Bacon Meme in UK
There is no blasphemy offence in England and Wales. There is Section 127, and it turns out to be roomy.
New Jersey Kids Code Act Draws First Amendment Warning
The statute never says age verification. It just makes not knowing expensive enough that everyone will find out.
DHS Asks Judge for Names in Maine Signal Chats
To prove your speech was chilled, you have to describe the thing you were chilled out of doing, in detail, to the people who chilled you.
France's Top Court Kills the Under-15 Social Media Ban
Macron wanted to export the model around the world. His own constitutional court sent it back with notes.
California Digital ID Age Law Faces New Platform Appeal
The regulations were drafted while the constitutional question was still open, which tells you something about how confident the state is.
Ruben Gallego Social Media Bill Gives FTC Authority Over Age Verification Methods
The bill asks platforms to know something that the only way it can know is through ID checks.
Babylon Bee Sues New Mexico Over AI Satire Disclaimer Law
The state's own attorney general already suspected this was unconstitutional. That didn't slow anything down.
Britain's Elite Speech Monitoring Squad Has Flagged 106 Posts
The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team flagged 106 social media posts, half of them in June alone.
America Presses South Korea on "False Information" Law
The offense goes undefined, so the cheapest way to comply is to delete every post a court might someday dislike.
London Police Crack the Case of the Three Polite Emails
Mark Rowley says the Met dropped the ball on its 4-month harassment case against reporter Jack Grove.
Turkey Orders X to Hide Erdogan Rival's Campaign Account
The account has been renamed after each block and blocked again under the new name.
Edmonton Police Review Hate Reports on Lawful Speech
The video lasted a day. The web form it pointed to is still accepting submissions.