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Texas, Which Banned Most Content Moderation, Now Pushing Law Requiring Abortion-Related Info Be Blocked From The Internet by Mike Masnick

Well, this will be fun. As you’ll recall, in 2021, Texas signed into law a bill that effectively banned the right of companies to moderate content on social media. That law has been challenged in court, and while a district court tossed it out as unconstitutional (and obviously so), the 5th Circuit reversed in a […]

Another Day, Another Blatant Attack On The 1st Amendment From The Florida GOP by Mike Masnick

I keep hearing people pretend that the GOP in general, and Florida GOPers more specifically, and Governor Ron DeSantis most specifically, are fighting for “free speech,” when they continually seem to push blatantly unconstitutional legislation designed to attack free speech and the 1st Amendment in a way that keeps getting Florida shot down in court […]

Fox News isn’t news at all.

His argument for racial prejudice isn’t just pernicious. It’s stupid.

Her big trans panic story turned out to be nonsense, just like everything else she does.

Rules for bloggers who write about elected officials raise First Amendment concern.

Proposed law targets websites that help women get abortions or abortion pills.

Each time we build a field validation from scratch, accessibility doesn’t come out of the box. In this guide, Sandrina breaks down what we need to take into consideration, so that nobody gets stuck on an inaccessible invalid field.

You are not a parrot. And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

There’s no public commons on the web. It’s a race to the bottom, and the bottom is gross. You want me to log in to read? I think I simply will not read.

Florida’s “anti-woke” power grabs in K-12 and public universities should be opposed—but not by defending progressive illiberalism.

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Terrible Ideas Keep Inching Closer to Reality, Thanks to Supreme Court Conservatives That state nullification of federal law got FOUR VOTES in Cruz v. Arizona is yet another canary in this coalmine.

The toy company has apparently "gone woke" because of its new figures representing people with disabilities.

Every day, a new bill is released that targets the transgender community in new and cruel ways. HB991 in Florida is the newest example, which could charge people $35k for transphobia accusations.

Given the Court’s extreme new stance on the Second Amendment, it’s time to consider removing the issue from the federal judiciary’s jurisdiction.