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Wichita State University: Student Journalists Relegated to Less Favorable Parking Than Their Professional Peers

Wichita State University Search all Cases In January 2022, Wichita State student paper The Sunflower published an article describing how student journalists received parking privileges different from ...

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Free PRESSED: How Administrative Censorship is Squeezing Student Newsrooms

At least 60 percent of college newspaper editors reported experiencing at least one instance of administrative censorship in the previous year. Read the Press Release In the fall of 2020, Jared Nally,...

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VIRGINIA v. AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION, INC., et al.

484 U.S. 383 (1988) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases No. 86-1034. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 4, 1987 Decided January 25, 1988 APPEAL FROM T...

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Offensive Cyber Operations and Combat Effectiveness After Ukraine

On March 4, one day after President Trump announced the temporary suspension of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, nine young Ukrainian citizens were awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky . These Ukraini...

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Nico Perrino

Nico Perrino is FIRE's executive vice president and the creator and host of FIRE’s So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast . Prior to his current role, he led FIRE's Communications department for nearly ...

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Two Visions of National Security at the Harris-Trump Debate

In between former President Trump’s false claim of Haitian migrants eating cats in Springfield, Ohio, and another false claim that Vice President Harris was promising to perform transgender operations...

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Should Congress Play a Role in Arms Sales?

The Trump administration is considering ending one of the few congressional checks on arms sales to foreign countries. Editor’s Note: The Trump administration ’s proposal to end the informal practice ...

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Ban Pay-to-Play National Security Approvals

Editor’s note: This article is cross-posted at Just Security . In late December, in what seemed like the end of a five-year saga, TikTok agreed to spin off its U.S. operations to a group of investors....

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Beyond Carpenter - A Legislative Framework for Mobile Location Privacy

A new chapter of federal law could bring clarity to the government’s acquisition of mobile location data. In Carpenter v. United States , the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment requires a wa...

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Jawboning and the Limits of Government Advocacy

Clear rules are hard to apply but especially necessary in these polarized times. The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in two cases that raise the question of when government “jawboning” viol...

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Supreme Court Rules in Jawboning Case

On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled six-to-three that the individuals and states challenging the government’s practice of “jawboning”—pressuring social media platforms to moderate content—lack standin...

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Ukraine: The Past, Present, and Future of Russian Disinformation

Russian malign influence operations have changed their tactics in recent years. But their message has stayed the same: Abandon Ukraine. On the morning of Nov. 7, 2024, the pro-Russian X account @OCano...

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Skirting Judicial Scrutiny by Mooting and Scooting

We rely on providers to resist improper surveillance. The Justice Department uses a “moot and scoot” tactic to hobble this protection. Increasingly, people rely on service providers as gatekeepers of ...

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The Situation: The Five Pillars of Trumpian Repression

Trump plays the authoritarian card differently from how analysts expected. The Situation on Wednesday offered friendly advice to anyone seeking to get away with violating a court order. Today, a lesso...

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Products Liability for Artificial Intelligence

Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series on liability in the AI ecosystem , from Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy. As both government and private parties seek wa...

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Content Moderation and the Least Cost Avoider

Who should be responsible for mitigating the harm from malicious social media content? The poster? The social media platform? The internet service provider that carries the transmission? Or some other...

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Scaling Laws: AI in the Classroom with MacKenzie Price and Rebecca Winthrop

MacKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School, and Rebecca Winthrop, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, join Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovatio...

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Governing Frontier AI: California’s SB 53

In late September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 53 (SB 53), the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA), making California the first U.S. state to enact legisla...

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Informal Government Coercion and The Problem of "Jawboning"

At what point does informal coercion raise Constitutional questions? For years now, scholars have expressed alarm at the tendency of government officials to use informal means, rather than democratica...

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Regulations Targeting Large Language Models Warrant Strict Scrutiny Under the First Amendment

In Moody v. NetChoice, LLC , a Supreme Court majority went out of its way to hold (at least in the form of “guidance”) that the traditional First Amendment doctrines that protect editorial judgment, d...

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