Nohemi Gonzalez, then 23, a California student, was one of 130 people killed by ISIS terrorists in Paris on November 13, 2015 (see details here). Her family is suing Google, alleging its algorithms helped radicalize the killers by steering them to videos that ISIS posted on YouTube. Vox says in an a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’
September 17th, 2022 - 1:24 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
California governor advertises abortions in red states
While the GOP governors of Florida and Texas are spending taxpayer money to dump migrants in blue states (and Florida’s governor, at least, may have stepped on a landmine in doing so, see story here), California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a political stunt of his own. He’s invading their turf[...]
Report Boebert to the FBI for this? Yawn.
A lot of people did (see story here), but I don’t think their complaints are going anywhere. The problem is it’s impossible to prove she committed a crime, because both her intent and the phrase are ambiguous. There are lawful ways to “terminate” a presidency: Impeachment, in[...]
June 25th, 2022 - 4:20 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Politics
Cuba reminds us what it’s like to lose freedom
“A Cuban court has sentenced two artists critical of the communist state to … prison,” Raw Story reported on Saturday, June 25, 2022 (read story here). “Rapper Maykel Castillo, 39,… was sentenced to nine years, while 34-year-old performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alca[...]
May 16th, 2022 - 1:21 pm § in Politics
Ted Nugent again urges fans to assault Democrats
Read story here. And if you see this guy, punch him in the snoot. Hey, just kidding! I don’t really want anyone to actually do that, I’m just blowing off steam at a repeat offender. It’s not a crime for me to say that, because we have free speech in this country, and I have [&helli[...]
Where should protesters protest?
Let’s start with the First Amendment, which says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Gove[...]
Why Florida’s attack on Disney is monstrous
Florida’s legislature, which is controlled by Republicans (specifics here), passed a bill requested by GOP Gov. DeSantis, which he signed, that repeals the special taxing district established in 1967 for Disney’s Florida theme parks (details here) to retaliate against Disney for criticiz[...]
Should Rep. Cawthorn be banned from re-election for “aiding insurrection”?
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) is controversial, to say the least; see his profile here. And while he’s not popular everywhere, he’s certainly popular in his district; in 2020, he easily defeated a retired Air Force colonel and former Guantanamo prosecutor, 54%-42% (details here). Some of [...]
February 1st, 2022 - 5:42 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Schools & Colleges
2/1/22 free speech roundup
Georgetown Law Center, one of America’s top law schools, suspended a newly hired lecturer a day before he was to start work for tweeting that Biden, instead of choosing “the objectively best pick” for the Supreme Court, instead plans to pick “a lesser black woman,” whic[...]