Last week Facebook announced that it has employed a forty member board to make final decisions about posts that have been taken down. In her article "Facebook Restricts Speech By Popular Demand", Daphne Keller highlights more than a few of the issues that go along with this new system. Keller compares Facebook's new forty person... Continue Reading →

In the famous 1947 court case Roth v. United States, obscenity was affirmed as being unprotected by the First Amendment, meaning it was a punishable offense in the eyes of the law. Sam Roth was convicted of mailing an obscene publication which was in direct violation of federal law. When the Supreme Court affirmed his... Continue Reading →