Report: Illinois Senator Introduces Age-Verification Law
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – While the text of the bill has yet to be published to the legislature’s website, Illinois media outlets report that State Sen. Erica Harriss (R-Glen Carbon) and ...
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Utah Asks Court to Dismiss FSC Lawsuit
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – In a recently-filed motion, Jess L. Anderson, the Commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety and Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, the named ...
New State and Federal Proposals Threaten Free Speech
In November, YNOT published an analysis which concluded the divided Congress, split between the GOP-held House and the Democrat-held Senate, would produce bills that could carry direct and indirect implications ...
LGBTQ Expression Now Outlawed in Russia
MOSCOW — In the latest strike against LGBTQ rights in the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin has officially outlawed what the State Duma (the national legislature) calls "gay propaganda." The ...
Musk Owns Twitter; What Does it Mean for Adult Creators?
SAN FRANCISCO — It's official, everybody. Elon Musk, the world's richest man and the eccentric futurist who owns Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is now the newest owner and the latest ...
What the Hell Does “Conservative” Even Mean These Days?
As you’ve probably heard by now, last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit finally explained its reasoning in overturning a lower court’s ruling issuing an injunction ...
Without Explanation, Court Lifts Injunction on New TX Social Media Law
Last week, a divided panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted a lower court’s injunction staying the enforcement of a new Texas law ...
It Sucks – but it’s Not a 1st Amendment Violation
SHADOWBANISTAN – You’ve probably never heard of Shadowbanistan, the obscure, forbidding, quite possibly imaginary country from which I’m writing this post, but it’s at the center of a major controversy ...
Senate Dems Introduce “Health Misinformation” Section 230 Carve-Out
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), with Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), introduced the Health Misinformation Act (HMA) to combat conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and other health crises from spreading ...
Hey Florida: Want to a True ‘Free Speech’ Platform? Build One.
Happy Fourth Fifth of July, everybody! And since there’s no day like Independence Day to address weighty subjects like civil liberties, civil rights and uncivil discourse, I have a modest ...
