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State Department documents reveal secret plans to route ‘censorship’ office to new hub

January 2, 2025
The State Department has crafted plans to distribute staffers from a shuttered office accused of censoring conservatives to a new internal “hub” that will coordinate its activities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner… “Given the evidence shows that the GEC has long ignored its congressional mandate to focus solely on foreign disinformation, its continuation under a so-called hub…
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Big Cases by the Numbers [December 30, 2024]

December 30, 2024
While quantifying case importance is a subjective art at best, there are some measurable elements that provide deeper than a gut impression as a basis for comparison. Some possibilities include dollar value or companies involved, case complexity, differences of opinion between judges, firms involved in litigating the cases, and interests or implications for those beyond…
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Here’s How Trump Admin Could Help Crush Censorship Industry

December 28, 2024
The Trump administration has a major opportunity to deal a blow to the sprawling censorship industry, both inside the government and in the private sector… “If Trump takes the steps that he has indicated he will, one focus of anti-censorship efforts I anticipate is nonprofits like the Atlantic Council and Stanford Internet Observatory [SIO] that…
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Newman Accuses Fed. Cir. of Concealing Files to Control News

December 27, 2024
The Federal Circuit’s chief judge is fighting the release of documents related to Judge Pauline Newman’s suspension to control the media narrative surrounding her removal from the court, 97-year-Newman said in a Thursday filing. Newman urged the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where she is appealing the dismissal of her lawsuit seeking reinstatement, to unseal four…
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Corporations Clinging To DEI Will Lose Social License to Operate

December 24, 2024
By Stefan Padfield Americans hate racial discrimination, and they hate inequality borne of government force. However, if you try to solve the problem of inequality by engaging in Orwellian and neo-racist “discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination” (often advanced under the banners of “antiracism” and “DEI” — “diversity, equity, and inclusion”), then you will sooner…
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Vaccine Injured & Bereaved Sue the Feds, Stanford University for Unconstitutional Censorship

December 18, 2024
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has filed a lawsuit, Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, against the federal government and Stanford University, alleging unconstitutional censorship of individuals discussing COVID-19 vaccines on social media. Plaintiffs, including vaccine trial volunteer Brianne Dressen, co-founder of React19, physical therapist Nikki Holland, and Ernest Ramirez, whose son tragically died following…
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