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UrduAs the Supreme Court wraps up its term, there are a number of major decisions to come. Among them are decisions in the cases Moody v. NetChoice / NetChoice v. Paxton, and Murthy v. Missouri. These three cases have far-reaching implications for social media platforms,…
Tag: Free Speech
MSU expert: Free speech and social media cases could shape future of media regulation
EAST LANSING, Mich. – The U.S. Supreme Court is set to deliver a decision in a pair of cases that could help define the government’s role when it comes to regulation of social media companies and their freedoms. The cases…
UC Irvine to host ‘conversations across the divide’ during its Year of Free Speech
Free speech and academic freedom are foundational matters that drive the important discourse and learning that take place on a college campus.
Langvardt discusses free-speech implications of Musk’s Twitter purchase
Elon Musk has a difficult and probably impossible task ahead of him, because free speech ideals aren’t well-suited to social media. Platform administrators — even those with strong libertarian impulses — wind up policing online speech.
MTSU Free Speech Center, Poynter Institute Collaborate on First Amendment Education
The initiative, which combines the Poynter Institute’s “Press Pass” program with the Free Speech Center’s “Lessons in Liberty,” will give educators timely and interactive classroom exercises designed to illuminate freedom of speech and press for the next generation of citizens.
UCI Law launches Fair Elections and Free Speech Center
Irvine, Calif., July 20, 2021 — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce the launch of the new Fair Elections and Free Speech Center. The Center is dedicated to advancing an understanding of, and offering means to counter, threats to the stability and legitimacy of democratic governments exacerbated by the unregulated growth of digital media and other technological changes in mass communication.
Trump Sues @Facebook’s @finkd , @Twitter’s @Jack Dorsey and @Google’s @sundarpichai: @FreeSpeechMTSU Expert @KenPaulson1 Available to Discuss with Reporters
Banned from Twitter indefinitely and from Facebook for until 2023, embattled former President Donald Trump filed class action lawsuits July 7, against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. In this latest step, Trump…
Media Law, Communication, and Free Speech Expert Comments on Supreme Court Ruling on a Student’s Profane Rant
Jason Shepard, professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, specializes in media law and is available to comment on this morning’s 8-1 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the free speech of a high school cheerleader who posted a profane rant on Snapchat in 2017.
Law, school discipline experts available to comment on Supreme Court ruling on high schooler’s free speech case
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that a school district in Pennsylvania violated the First Amendment when it punished a high school student for using vulgar language in a Snapchat message that was posted off school grounds. Indiana…
UCI experts produce guide for defense attorneys fighting use of rap lyrics in trials
Irvine, Calif., June 9, 2021 — Criminology and legal experts at the University of California, Irvine have released Rap on Trial: A Legal Guide for Attorneys, to help protect artists from having their lyrics used against them in court. Rap lyrics have been introduced as evidence in hundreds of cases, and a high-profile ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals recently allowed a few lines of rap to help put a man behind bars for 50 years.
From Snapchat to the Supreme Court: @KenPaulson1 is available to comment on Mahony Area School District v. B.L.
Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center, at Middle Tennessee State University, is available to provide expertise on how First Amendment rights apply to social media. On Mahony Area School District v. B.L., for which arguments are on Wednesday, April…
India’s academic, online freedoms under fire as government cracks down
After initially resisting demands to remove users criticizing the Indian government from its platform, Twitter blocked hundreds of accounts this week as the Narendra Modi’s government threatened action against Twitter employees. Sital Kalantry, professor of law at Cornell University, is…
MTSU Free Speech Center’s new First Amendment report offers ‘creative ways’ to reach college students
“Learning About Liberty: Facilitating First Amendment Engagement Among American University Students” is a new report by the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University that finds that college students don’t know much about their First Amendment freedoms, but their professors can help address that gap.
@FreeSpeechMTSU director @KenPaulson1 reminds 1st Amendment doesn’t say @Twitter & @Facebook shall make no rules.
Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center, at Middle Tennessee State University, is available to provide expertise on how First Amendment Rights apply to social media. In this interview, he breaks down the First Amendment and Free Speech as…
Dec. 15 marks the 229th anniversary of the Bill of Rights ratification. @FreeSpeechMTSU @kenpaulson1 reminds us what we’re celebrating.
Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University is available to explain the Bill of Rights – the set of freedoms at the core of our nation’s values – and why we should not take…
Nashville artists, authors, athletes speak up for First Amendment with MTSU Free Speech Center’s 1 for All awareness effort
Using a host of diverse voices, the awareness campaign seeks to help more citizens better understand all of their five freedoms under the First Amendment as protests continue across the country against racial injustice.
Freedom of speech expert available to comment on Trump’s executive order on social media
President Trump signed an executive order May 28 that challenges the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The order limits legal protections that had shielded social media companies from liability for what gets posted on their platforms, making it…
Toward a more civil discourse
In our current climate of sometimes intense vitriol, reappropriation — by which a group of people reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group — can tame uncivil discourse, finds a new study by political scientists and a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
WashU Expert: Freedom of speech, the NBA and China
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey recently tweeted in support of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, causing reaction from the NBA and from China.Following Morey’s tweet, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed support for Morey’s freedom of speech. But in response, China’s state broadcaster CCTV punished the NBA by canceling broadcasts of two preseason NBA games.