by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The organization I lead, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, represents plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden, a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s campaign to censor speech on social media. For years, officials at the White House, the Federal Bureau of...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Dec 13, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Amid growing revelations about government involvement in social-media censorship, it’s no longer enough to talk simply about tech censorship. The problem should be understood as gov-tech censorship. The Biden White House has threatened tech companies and federal...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jan 5, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
On the second anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s worth considering how politics—and especially presidential elections—have increasingly become like warfare. A pair of developments—one legislative, one administrative—have raised the...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jul 12, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
After the COVID ‘misinformation’ experience, will the vice president’s new plan for addressing online harassment go any better? For most of its existence, I had avoided social media and held particular disdain for Twitter, which I saw as intrinsically...
by will.gale | Nov 16, 2021 | Opinion, Richard Samp
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 29 agreed to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that broadly construed the right of individuals to file suit for infringement of their constitutional rights — a sure sign the 9th Circuit will once again be...