Texas A&M University reached a settlement with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Monday, agreeing to remove filters from its Facebook page that PETA claimed violated its right to speak out against the school’s research on dogs.
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Pakistan’s government on Monday postponed its decision on whether to lift a ban on a movie that had offended hard-line Islamists in this Muslim-majority country, after asking a high council of clerics to weigh in on the film.
Read moreA federal magistrate threw out a discrimination suit against Vimeo from a California pastor who says he is the product of gay-conversion therapy.
Read moreU.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has unblocked a former New York politician on Twitter and apologized to him, just before she was to take the stand in his First Amendment lawsuit against her.
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday awarded Prison Legal News $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and costs for its successful, 8-year-old lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections for refusing to allow the monthly publication in its prisons.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Chinese officials wanted Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to be fired for his tweet supporting anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, and that the league dismissed the request.
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Apple removed a smartphone app that allows Hong Kong residents to report police movements from its online store Thursday after an official Chinese newspaper accused the company of facilitating illegal behavior.
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In response to the NBA’s defending Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey’s freedom of speech, China canceled events scheduled with the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets.
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The NBA’s lucrative interests in China are under threat, but the league enjoys an important piece of leverage that could carry it through the crisis: It’s the only game in town.
Read moreTiffany & Co. have removed a tweet showing a woman covering one eye after Chinese consumers accused the jeweler of supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
Read moreCollege students in San Diego County saw two court victories this summer in First Amendment cases challenging how mandatory student fees are allocated by schools. It’s a trend legal experts say will continue as alternative student groups challenge who gets access to funds raised by students, with lack of funding amounting to censorship.
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A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure up evil spirits.
Read moreLawyers for Google and the website Prager University squared off before a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday over whether YouTube censors the conservative platform in violation of the First Amendment.
Read moreGoogle unfairly censors videos on LGBTQ issues, the Divino Group claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreEurope’s top court backed Lithuania on Friday for barring broadcasts of a Russian propaganda channel except as part of a pay-per-view subscription.
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President Donald Trump’s next tweet might come with a warning label. Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems to involve matters of public interest, but which violate the service’s rules, will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation and Twitter’s reasons for publishing it anyway. Users will have to tap through the warning to see the underlying message.
Read moreArizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.
Read moreAfter years of pressure to crack down on hatred and bigotry, Facebook has banned Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Louis Farrakhan and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on “dangerous individuals.”
Read moreReviving a woman’s claims against Hunt County for its sheriff’s policy of deleting negative comments from its official Facebook page and banning users, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the plaintiff sufficiently pleaded that the county “had an explicit policy of viewpoint discrimination.”
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