The report of Attorney General William Barr’s Department of Justice on Section 230, our basic Internet law, acknowledges a key need for Section 230, even while it recommends beginning to dismantle it, brick-by-brick. READ MORE
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DOJ Section 230 report unintentionally highlights dangers of internet heckler’s vetoes
Mark Sableman
July 10, 2020
Can social media posts be tortious or criminal?
Mark Sableman
August 27, 2018
Drawing the line between protected speech and unprotected action is one of the oldest issues under the First Amendment. Recent cases involving social media postings are bringing the issue into the 21st century. READ MORE
What’s the future of free speech protections for advertisements?
Mark Sableman
November 8, 2013
Even as advertising starts to look more like journalism, there’s one thing that ads certainly share with news content: First Amendment protection. READ MORE
Free speech on Facebook: You can ‘like’ but you can't threaten
Mark Sableman
September 26, 2013
Facebook communications have become the newest testing ground for free speech. And the results, at least from two recent and notable cases, affirm the unusual and perhaps counterintuitive way that U.S law looks at a key threshold question: What is speech? READ MORE