NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL| The White House
RICO was meant to take down mob bosses — not protesters with megaphones. When officials try to twist racketeering laws into a cudgel against dissent, they don’t just misapply the law; they chill speech at the core of democracy.| The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Although it is widely considered a political movement, antifa is not an organization with an official membership, leader or base for operations, and it is often organized into autonomous local groups.| PBS News
Legal experts say Trump lacks authority to designate domestic terrorist organizations, but the planned move could still affect some law enforcement approaches.| www.cbsnews.com
In 1981, President Reagan issued Executive Order (E.O.) 12,333, which has since come to serve as a general charter for mass intelligence surveillance.| Yale Law School
The fear that terrorist organizations will exploit the reach and affordances of social media platforms to spread propaganda, incite violence, and recruit followers was one of the first—and remains one of the most intense—anxieties about the harms caused by the internet. 1. Jillian C. York, Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism 100–113 (2021) (reviewing the pressure on tech companies to remove terrorist content from 2008 onwards). For years, both politic...| Knight First Amendment Institute