How to kill online free speech

The European Court of Human Rights provides a cautionary tale as the U.S. Supreme Court faces many challenges to its robust protections for online speech.

Approaching challenging ideas with resilience, not fear

Stifling ‘harmful’ speech is futile. Meeting it with more speech isn’t.

The RESTRICT Act threatens a free and open Internet. It must be stopped. 

Bill targeting apps owned by ‘foreign adversaries’ could have wide-ranging consequences for freedom of speech.

Twitter is no free speech haven under Elon Musk

For all the talk of Twitter being a digital town square, it is ultimately more like Elon Musk’s house party.

The RESTRICT Act’s vague and overbroad language is a threat to a free and open internet

The bill would grant the secretary of commerce enormous power to regulate transactions with foreign technology companies.

Twitter removes ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ posts in another loss for free expression on the platform

Blanket bans on words and images with no regard to context shuts down conversations about important issues of public concern.

Congress should require the government to disclose its communications with social media companies about user speech

Strong legislation is required to assure the American people that government officials are not abusing their power to censor online expression.

FIRE statement on efforts to ban TikTok

Eastern Washington University unblocks critics on social media

Looks like Eastern Washington University isn’t a “dumpster fire” after all, at least when it comes to the First Amendment.

Twitter puts free speech and transparency at risk if it fails to publish government takedown requests

Twitter failed to publish its most recent transparency report and has yet to respond to media requests about the oversight.