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Free speech in Britain.
Free speech is a hot topic in Britain these days, as a Birmingham theater closes down a play that offended a religious group and touched off a viole…
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"Digg buried by users in piracy face-down."
Interesting. Both the power of a website's community over its owners and the issue that moved them to wield their power. Pleading for the Digg h…
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Is it unconstitutional to bar trademarking "Stop the Islamization of America" because it's "disparaging to a substantial composite" of Muslims?
Eugene Volokh expresses the "tentative view" that 'the general exclusion of marks that disparage persons, institutions, beliefs, or nat…
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Rush Limbaugh's ratings plunged last month.
Which thrilled some Rush haters. B ut it turns out the ratings were only down relative to the previous month... when they spiked because of all the …
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The Wall Street Journal says Scott Walker "dodged" its point about settling the John Doe investigation.
Walker said he had no power to settle the federal lawsuit that attacks the investigation because he's not a party to that lawsuit, but... Sorry, …
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When 4 or 5 are gathered against my name, I'm going to require a permit, applied for 72 hours in advance.
Sayeth Scott Walker. (Compare Jesus : "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.") The rule ap…
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A Texas appellate court holds the "Improper Photography" law unconstitutional.
This was the case of a man caught with a digital camera containing 73 photographs of children in bathing suits that the prosecutor said "target…
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"The Internet is a hybrid of television and print. And in order to communicate to a younger audience, they expect there will be accompanying illustration..."
"... proof of what the writer is saying... If you are trying to communicate to a modern audience, pictures are essential." Said Gawker mogu…
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"[Amos] Yee’s arrest doesn't just underscore his complaints about Singapore’s backwardness on rights and freedom."
"It shows the country’s dire need for cultural education through intelligent dissent." In the days after Yee’s arrest, a slew of local cele…
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When 4 or 5 are gathered against my name, I'm going to require a permit, applied for 72 hours in advance.
Sayeth Scott Walker. (Compare Jesus : "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.") The rule ap…
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"Google will leave a controversial video clip about the Islamic prophet Muhammad on YouTube..."
"... despite a White House request that the company review it under its own policies, the company said Friday." “We work hard to create a c…
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"Feds Arrest Producer Of Controversial Anti-Islam Film On Probation Violation Charge."
"Investigators have not yet provided details about how Nakoula allegedly violated probation, but it seems clear that his involvement in the '…
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"In the realm of religious faith, and in that of political belief, sharp differences arise."
"In both fields the tenets of one man may seem the rankest error to his neighbor. To persuade others to his own point of view, the pleader, as w…
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"It may be that the blue noses will bring him down or knock him out of contention for the high court..."
"... but if so, it would be a loss for the judiciary." A New York Sun editorial about Alex Kozinski.
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"In an opinion filled with chilling, repeated references to being within shooting or grenade-throwing distance of the president..."
"... the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that the Secret Service did not engage in unconstitutional censorship when its agents moved …
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"Why a Saudi blogger faces a possible death sentence for three tweets."
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the case of a 23-year-old man, Hamza Kashgari, who tweeted a birthday message to the prophet Muhammad: &quo…
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Stephen Fry won't be charged — under Irish anti-blasphemy law — for calling God a "maniac."
But he was investigated. It didn't take long , but it still has a chilling effect on the freedom of speech in Ireland. Why does this law even exi…
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WiFi networks names are trying to scare you "Imunder-yourbed," "normanbates," "bedroomspy"...
... or tell you something "Turndownyourmusic,""stopsmokingweed".... "We had a neighbor who my roommate John had a crush on, …
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The Princeton police are investigating that "Jews vs. Nazis" beer pong game.
A teenaged blogger was "confused" by the photo she saw on SnapChat of her high-school classmates playing a game with cups arranged as a swa…
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"President Trump’s reelection campaign accused the liberal mayor of Minneapolis on Monday of trying to shut down his planned Thursday rally via an extortionate security bill."
"The campaign said Mayor Jacob Frey, whom it dubbed a 'radical leftist,' had presented the Target Center with a 'phony and outlandis…
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