Don't get accustomed to me praising Donald Trump, but exceptions will occur now and then. Trump is no principled friend of liberty, not by a long shot. Judging by most of his actions and words, he recognizes no impenetrable boundary between the government and the private sector, the market economy.…| The Libertarian Institute
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) condemns the federal government's use of its power to pressure ABC to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air. The executive branch's work to silence a disfavored media voice violates the First Amendment and undermines every American's liberty to choose what they read, see, or hear.| National Coalition Against Censorship
REST Media has garnered millions of views on social media for its content targeting Moldova’s pro-EU leadership. Researchers say it’s a Kremlin operation.| CyberScoop
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.| The Daily Sceptic
The Best of the Rest of the News| hartmannreport.com
Roughly 100 Georgetown University students and community members walked out of classes March 11 to protest the federal detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student organizer and activist at Columbia University. Federal immigration officers detained Khalil, a lawful U.S. permanent resident and prominent activist during pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia last spring, in his university...| The Hoya
From firings to the threat of deportation, people who reacted in ways deemed offensive after Charlie Kirk’s death are facing consequences for their speech.| TIME
Jump to K-12 education; higher education; overall risk for the nation. The Trump administration is poised to issue executive orders that would dismantle| The Century Foundation
No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.| PEN America
NSF priorities| NSF - National Science Foundation
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.| www.nytimes.com
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.| Public Knowledge
An FBI official urged the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to cancel a conference presentation titled “Taking on the FBI.”| The Intercept
Three games I’m looking forward to, watching anime movies and westerns, the Washington hype train crashes, and a hurricane of news that’s impossible to track.| endgameviable.com
The new president has signed more than 100 directives that will alter the course of US policy. We look at how they will influence free expression in the “land of liberty”| Index on Censorship
Justice Jackson’s jewelry, Justice Alito’s surprising vote, Kirkland’s raid on Skadden, Gibson Dunn’s latest wins—and more Trump news than you can shake a stick at.| davidlat.substack.com
#Democrat, #VoteBlue, #Bernie, #JohnOliver, and 24 other hashtags Instagram censored on the day of Trump's inauguration.| Doc Pop's Weblog