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Someone Trying to Vanish My Post About a Case on One-Sided Pseudonymity Again

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Free Speech In February, I wrote about a Fourth Circuit decision in Doe v. Sidar, which...
Free Speech In February, I wrote about a Fourth Circuit decision in Doe v. Sidar, which discusses one-sided pseudonymity. Today, I see that Google received yet one more request that it remove that post from its indexes, and thus vanish it from search results. That's the fourth attempt so far aimed at that particular...

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Judge Acquits Backpage Co-Founder Michael Lacey on Most Counts

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Backpage The court found insufficient evidence to sustain 53 of 84 remaining counts against Lacey. A...
Backpage The court found insufficient evidence to sustain 53 of 84 remaining counts against Lacey. A federal judge has acquitted Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey of dozens of counts, including a majority of those on which federal prosecutors planned to retry Lacey later this year. U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa...

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The Crusade Against 'Malinformation' Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths

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Last month, I noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had repeatedly exaggerated the...
Last month, I noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had repeatedly exaggerated the scientific evidence supporting face mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook attached a warning to that column, which it said was "missing context" and "could mislead people." According to an alliance o...

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Putting Privacy Focused "Free Speech" VPS Providers to the Test

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The Backpage Defendants Never Stood a Chance

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Eighty-six counts of criminal activity—that's what veteran journalist and publisher Michael Lacey faced in the federal...
Eighty-six counts of criminal activity—that's what veteran journalist and publisher Michael Lacey faced in the federal case against him, a saga kicked off by federal agents raiding his house and shutting down a website he co-founded in 2004, Backpage. A saga that has stretched on for more than five years, through mu...

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Protect Act Could Require Removal of All Existing Porn Online

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Is Congress really trying to outlaw all sex work? That's what some people fear the Preventing...
Is Congress really trying to outlaw all sex work? That's what some people fear the Preventing Rampant Online Technological Exploitation and Criminal Trafficking (PROTECT) Act would mean. The bill defines "coerced consent" to include consent obtained by leveraging "economic circumstances"—which sure sounds like a goo...

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'No AI Fraud Act' Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More

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Mixing new technology and new laws is always a fraught business, especially if the tech in...
Mixing new technology and new laws is always a fraught business, especially if the tech in question relates to communication. Lawmakers routinely propose bills that would sweep up all sorts of First Amendment-protected speech. We've seen a lot of this with social media, and we're starting to see it with artificial i...

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Someone Trying to Vanish My Post About a Case on One-Sided Pseudonymity Again

Judge Acquits Backpage Co-Founder Michael Lacey on Most Counts

The Crusade Against 'Malinformation' Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths

Putting Privacy Focused "Free Speech" VPS Providers to the Test

The Backpage Defendants Never Stood a Chance

Protect Act Could Require Removal of All Existing Porn Online

'No AI Fraud Act' Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More