11th Circuit Upholds Injunction of Fla. Social Media Law
ATLANTA, Ga. – In an opinion published Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a district court’s injunction barring enforcement of most provisions of a Florida ...
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Woodhull Files Appeal in Lawsuit Challenging FOSTA-SESTA
WASHINGTON — The Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a prominent civil society organization advocating for free sexual expression and sex workers' rights, filed an appeal in its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ...
Utah Governor Signs Porn Filtering Bill Into Law
SALT LAKE CITY — In what appears to be the most invasive violation of constitutional rights in several years, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill (HB) 72 into law ...
PACT Act Section 230 ‘Fix’ Could Harm Adult Platforms
WASHINGTON — Congress is developing several proposals to overhaul technology platform liability shields outlined under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and John ...
Utah’s Porn Filtering, Online Speech Proposals Are Unconstitutional
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s state legislature ended its annual session, recently. YNOT has covered, extensively, the evolution of House Bill (HB) 72 — a proposal that would mandate every ...
States Propose More Dubious Bills To Circumvent Section 230
Republican state lawmakers are working overtime to strip away the immunity shield most technology companies are entitled to. According to federal law, this liability shield is granted to web platforms ...
Anti-Porn Bills Die in Congress
The 117th Congress of the United States of America was sworn in on Sunday, January 3, 2021, pending a few disputed results and the winners of Georgia’s runoff Senate elections. ...
The Bill Is Dead! Long Live the Bill
Pro tip for Congress-watchers: If you spend your time trying to make sense of every fool thing Congress proposes, considers, debates or collectively pontificates about, you will eventually lose your ...
SISEA is “Unworkable” – Not to Mention Likely Unconstitutional
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late last week, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Ben Sasse (R-NE) unveiled a new bill they’ve dubbed the “Stop Internet Sexual Exploitation Act” (“SISEA”), legislation the ...
Third Circuit Issues Complex, Mixed Decision in 2257 Case
In what the Free Speech Coalition has aptly termed a “complicated” decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in the long running case Free ...
