A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure
Donald Trump is no friend of free speech. He promotes ignorance about the First Amendment and has a history of bogus censorious lawsuits. It is not necessary to make things up to paint him as censorious and uninformed about free speech values. Yet here we are again. For the third time I return to Nwanguma[Read More…]
By Marc Randazza The "March for Science" seemed like a great idea. Science is awesome. Making decisions based on evidence and the scientific method is superior to making decisions based on superstition and emotion. So yay science. I'm certain (or at least willing to believe) that the organizers were truly motivated by a desire for[Read More…]
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The LA Times, surely against its better judgment, has printed my thoughts about Alex Jones' "I'm playing a character" defense, complete with a slightly sanitized version of the Rule of Goats.
Yes, rights are important, and we must offer them generously. But surely we can agree that Nazis don't have rights? Can't we? I mean, surely we can agree that we don't have to extend rights to people who, given a chance, would take those rights from us. Surely we don't have to extend rights to[Read More…]
It's time for the Road to Popehat, the feature in which we check the site traffic logs, look at the searches that brought you here, and say "THIS IS HOW TRUMP GOT ELECTED." We're here to help. blocked tweets first amendment violation: TwitterLaw: here to explain to you how your peeves and momentary disappointments are[Read More…]
Prepare for viral nonsense about a lawsuit: "TRUMP RALLY GOER SUES TRUMP FOR INCITING HIM TO VIOLENCE!!!!" Except it's 90% nonsense. Here's a breathless CNN: Donald Trump supporter Alvin Bamberger is accused of assaulting a protester at a 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky. But if the 75-year-old veteran lost his cool at the Louisville rally,[Read More…]
I told a childhood story, as I sometimes do, on Twitter, and Storified it.
Last night I asked a series of questions on Twitter about the strike on Syria and about our goals and plans in such limited strikes in general. Someone Storified them here. The question underlying them all is this: do we have an achieveable goal that this action reliably advances?
Thanks to Dean Sterling Jones at Shooting The Messenger, I see that the demented and easily enraged Craig Brittain has returned to his habit of ineffectual gestures at censorship. You remember Craigbo. He ran a revenge porn site called "Is Anyone Down," posing as a lawyer named David Blade in order to extort victims into[Read More…]