Friend-of-the-court brief says California cannot force companies to report their views on “racism,” “disinformation,” and other controversial subjects.
The Supreme Court of the United States held oral arguments for two consequential cases surrounding the First Amendment rights of social media platforms: Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton.
In a new friend-of-the-court filing, FIRE asks the Supreme Court to prevent government officials from coercing private social media platforms into censoring speech.
In a new friend-of-the-court filing, FIRE asks the Supreme Court to rule that government officials cannot censor protected speech by punishing speakers’ associates.
The Supreme Court decision in Counterman v. Colorado is largely good news for the First Amendment because it sets a higher bar for punishing speech as a “true threat.”
Throwing someone in jail for badmouthing a public official is profoundly undemocratic and un-American, but that didn’t stop police from arresting Robert Frese after he insulted them on Facebook.