by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Dec 6, 2023 | Margot Cleveland, Opinion, Peggy Little
Do you want your government, under the guise of managing foreign affairs, to divert its anti-terror technology and resources to censor a segment of the American domestic press? Do you expect your tax dollars to fund and promote a scheme of media blacklists, designed...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Nov 30, 2023 | Opinion, Peggy Little
Noah Rosenblum’s Atlantic piece on Jarkesy v. SEC, a case that was argued at the Supreme Court Wednesday, is alarmingly titled “The Case That Could Destroy Our Government.” This apocalyptic take is the culmination of a concerted effort on the part of sectors of the...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Nov 1, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Can the government penalize someone for an inaccurate statement that wasn’t made with bad intent, recklessness or negligence, and that didn’t cause concrete harm to an identifiable third party? That’s the First Amendment question underlying the civil-fraud suit...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 11, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
A recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, accompanied by the predictable hysterical media coverage, has spurred nationwide chatter about a possible return to pandemic restrictions, from school closures to mask mandates. This is not baseless supposition, as schools,...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 20, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
In July of 2021, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, emailed a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, asking why the company had removed from Facebook, rather than demoted or flagged, claims that COVID-19 was “man-made.” Rice responded, “Because...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 15, 2023 | John J. Vecchione, Opinion
Whether or not the federal government and its myriad agencies will be able to coerce, cajole, encourage, threaten, and browbeat social media companies into removing views it does not like from their platforms was the question before the Fifth Circuit Court of...
