Wyden And Cruz Team Up On A Bill To Stop Government Jawboning. It’s… Actually Pretty Good?

Senators Ron Wyden and Ted Cruz have released the JAWBONE Act (“Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act”) as a way to prevent government suppressio…

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Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation

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Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation

For the better part of five years, we’ve been treated to an elaborate performance about the unprecedented constitutional horror of “jawboning.” Jim Jordan held hearings. Missouri&…

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America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations

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America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations

For years, certain folks on the left kept insisting they wanted to bring back the Fairness Doctrine — the old FCC policy that required broadcasters to present “both sides” of controvers…

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I don't know how bad #antisemitism is at #Harvard University or whether that Ivy League university is in violation of the Civil Rights Act, nor am I certain that the Department of Justice's lawsuit against it is pure in intent or just more #jawboning. One thing's for certain, though: Harvard University can easily afford to do away with funding from government, and it would not feel the pressure to kowtow to it.

https://reason.com/2026/03/20/doj-files-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-harvard-citing-campus-antisemitism/

#campusFreeSpeech #CivilRightsAct #TrumpAdministration

DOJ files civil rights lawsuit against Harvard, citing campus antisemitism

The Trump administration wants its federal funding back from Harvard, alleging the Ivy League university did "nothing" about campus antisemitism.

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"the threats of agency action are the point. There’s even a term for it: #Jawboning ... intended to elicit an action from a #private company by mere pressure from a #government entity.

...Gomez wrote about Carr ... “The #FCC can issue threats all day long, but it is powerless to carry them out. Such threats violate the #FirstAmendment and will go nowhere. Broadcasters should continue covering the #news, fiercely and independently, without fear of government pressure.”

#Politics #US #USA

Bondi Bragged About Forcing Facebook To Censor Speech. Now FIRE Is Suing.

I seem to recall a years-long freakout among MAGA folks about the Biden administration pressuring social media companies to remove content. You may have heard about it. Anyway. In unrelated news FI…

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Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him

Just a year and a half ago, Senator Rand Paul sponsored a bill that would make it illegal for federal government employees to ask internet companies to remove any speech. Now, in a NY Post op-ed, P…

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Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You’d Never Again Cave To Government Pressure? About That…

You may recall a year or so ago, when Mark Zuckerberg whined to Jim Jordan about how the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain… content.” Or maybe you re…

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