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 →

Lat week in Tennessee, Nicholas Ennis was driving his car when the Sheriff’s Department deputies cited him for having an obscene car sticker on the window of his truck. It has the letters “U” and “C” with a rifle on both ends followed by “Gun Control.” Anyone with a vocabulary that is above a sixth-grade... Continue Reading →

National Archives-Atlanta, Records of District Courts of the United States (ARC ID 2641477) Sarah C In chapter four of “Freedom for the Thought We Hate” by Anthony Lewis, a case that I found incredibly interesting was New York Times v. Sullivan. This case was, (for lack of a better word,) huge. It took all the... Continue Reading →

In Chapter 4 of Freedom for the Thought We Hate, I found the case of Near v. Minnesota to be the most interesting. Reading about the Minnesota “Public Nuisance” law, that shut down “malicious, scandalous, and defamatory newspapers,” reminded me of the tons of malicious, scandalous, and defamatory newspapers I see at CVS every day... Continue Reading →

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/09/29/denver-children-drag-show-endures-amid-demonstrations/ The Denver Post, 9/29/19 The First Amendment protects the citizens’ right of assembly. But what happens when those being protested against are children? The Colorado Proud Boys and several antifascist activists exercised their First Amendment rights this Sunday... at the front of a children’s drag show. This drag show, held in Denver, Colorado, brings... Continue Reading →

In chapter 4 of his book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, Anthony Lewis outlines the evolution of Libel law. He identifies the supreme court case, New York Times v. Sullivan as a turning point in the United States, claiming that it put an end to the concept of seditious libel and was extremely... Continue Reading →

Since Friday’s Global Climate Strike, and now Greta Thunberg’s speech at the UN Climate Action Summit, climate change headlines are more abundant than ever.  Videos of the young Swedish activist gone icon are being shared by the millions every day. Her catalyst affect brought millions from their schools, work, and homes to the streets to... Continue Reading →

We live in a society where sex is thought about, but not much talked about. Kids grow up thinking that sex is something wrong or something that they shouldn’t be interested in. Curiosity killed the cat, right? But in reality, thinking about or wanting sex is a biological drive that we are all born with.... 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 →