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A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?
Internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), as revealed by digital censorship journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that the group’s primary…

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In honor of Free Speech Week, end all regulatory gag orders
Free Speech Week is an annual, nonpartisan celebration of the indispensable right to speak one’s mind. While every level of government is expected…
Reason
The Justice Department’s Proposals for Breaking Up Google’s Dominance Won’t Work
Reason quoted CEI’s expert on antitrust atmosphere Jessica Melugin, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells Reason that a…
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Michael Mann v. National Review, CEI, et al: CEI and Rand Simberg’s Reply to Mann’s Opposition to our Anti-SLAPP Motion
Michael Mann v. National Review, CEI, et al: CEI and Rand Simberg’s Reply to Mann’s Opposition to our Anti-SLAPP Motion…
News Release
CEI SLAPPS Back In Closing Brief To Michael Mann Libel Lawsuit
Today marked the latest filing in a defamation lawsuit brought by climate science alarmist Michael Mann against CEI, National Review, and scholar Rand Simberg. CEI…
Legal Brief
Michael Mann. v. National Review, CEI, et al: Plaintiff’s Opposition to CEI and National Review’s Anti-SLAPP and Dismissal Motions
Michael Mann. v. National Review, CEI, et al: Plaintiff’s Opposition to CEI and National Review’s Anti-SLAPP and Dismissal Motions See also: CEI SLAPPS Back…
News Release
CEI SLAPPS Back At Climate Scientist Michael Mann’s Libel Lawsuit
CEI and adjunct analyst Rand Simberg responded last Friday to Michael Mann’s libel lawsuit against them, National Review, and columnist Mark Steyn, with a special…
The Delaware County Daily Times
Climatologist opens up storm of criticism
Meet the plaintiff: Penn State climatologist Michael Mann. Meet the defendants: writers Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg, National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Professor Mann…
Hot Air
One Film That Put Free Speech in the Cross Hairs
From Hot Air: Hans Bader, Senior Attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wrote on September 13 that “the Egyptian government said, ‘We ask…
News Release
Penn State Climate Scientist Michael Mann Demands Apology From CEI
The Competitive Enterprise Institute received a letter on August 21 from an attorney representing Penn State University Professor Michael E. Mann that demands that CEI…
Cato
Obamacare’s Constitutional Defects, First Amendment Division
From Ilya Shapiro's post on Cato@Liberty: As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Hans Bader put it: Obama’s HHS secretary sought to gag…
Cato
‘People’s Rights Amendment’ Would Knock Out People’s Rights
From Overlawyered: Incredibly, versions of this radical rights-stripping measure has been endorsed through resolutions by the state legislatures of…
Legal Brief
Bulldog Investors v. Massachusetts
Full Document Available in PDF Under the regulation at issue here, journalists, academics, students and others who are not wealthy or financially…
News Release
Free Speech for the 99% on Trial in Bulldog Investors v. Massachusetts
Washington, DC, March 5, 2012 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed an amicus brief in support of hedge fund Bulldog Investors and free speech…
Cato
Employment Law Roundup: Retaliation Charges Pose Growing Threat to Free Speech
Cato
Ryan Radia: SOPA could change the way the internet works
SOPA could change the way the internet works. Now, some of the biggest websites in the world like Google and Wikipedia are going dark in…
Cato
EPA’s Latest Power Grab
Chris Horner explains the EPA's latest power grab involving private property rights in Idaho…
Letters
Coalition Letter Urges House Judiciary Committee to Consider Implications of SOPA
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, TechFreedom, Americans…
Cato
Hans Bader Discusses Dangers of Courts Relying on “International Norms”
Cato
When Bullying is Bull
Tech Liberation
Why SOPA Threatens the DMCA Safe Harbor
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial bill before the House of Representatives aimed at combating “rogue websites,” isn’t just about criminal, foreign-based…
Tech Liberation
Free Speech and Chilling Effects Roundup
Tech Liberation
Showdown Looms Over Stop Online Piracy Act
Tech Liberation
Google, Facebook to Congress: Don’t Expect Us to Police Piracy
Reason
Warrantless GPS Tracking, Union Dues, and Fleeting Expletives: The Supreme Court Suits Up for Another Term
Reason
The Absurdity Of Anti-Bullying Laws
Reason
Politicization of Justice Department Worsens
Reason
MrFuddlesticks, the Renton Police Department and Online Civil Liberties
In the last two decades, the Internet has revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize. Unfortunately, our legal system has yet to adapt to the…
Pittsburgh Live
Request for Social Media Curbs in Britain Spark Debate
Pittsburgh Live
State Stifling Free Speech
Pittsburgh Live
‘Bullying’ as a Means of Suppressing Speech
Pittsburgh Live
Tell Us About It: “Why the Right to Criticize Lawyers is Vital”
Pittsburgh Live
Bullying as a Civil Rights Violation: The U.S. Department of Education’s Approach to Harassment
Pittsburgh Live
Day Cares Can’t Mandate Diversity
It is ridiculous that a bossy Colorado state agency proposed forcing day care centers to post two or more visual displays “presenting diversity in a…
Pittsburgh Live
June 30 Roundup: First Amendment Wins as SCOTUS Strikes Down Violent-Videogame Ban
Pittsburgh Live
June 27 Roundup
Pittsburgh Live
This Week in the News: OCR Letter Continues to Generate Coverage and Greg’s ‘Best Seven’ Free Speech List Still Making Waves
Pittsburgh Live
Due Process Stops at the Campus Gates?
Pittsburgh Live
Testimony of Roger Clegg Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the Federal Government’s Role in Preventing Student Harassment (PDF)
Pittsburgh Live
Federally-Mandated ‘Bully-Proofing’ Programs Coming to a School Near You
Pittsburgh Live
Federal Bully
Pittsburgh Live
Democracy in Egypt? Define “Democracy”
Reason
Being Smart With Your Smartphone, Police Search Edition
Reason
Premium Power Grab: Feds Take Control of Insurance Prices
Washington Examiner
WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange in Australian Times
Julian Assange, Wikileaks mastermind, writes in today’s Australian Times: WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with…
Tech Liberation
Does Wikileaks Have a First Amendment Case Against Joe Lieberman?
Amazon made headlines last week when it abruptly cut off service to Wikileaks, allegedly on the grounds that the site had violated Amazon’s terms of acceptable…
Reason
The Other Shoe Is Dropping
Study
BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: The First Amendment Takes a Hit
Full Document Available in PDF…
Newsletter
Campaign Finance, Alcohol Regulation and Underage Senior Citizens
Senate Democrats lose a key vote on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill to regulate campaign finance spending. Congress is considering a bill that would allow…
Letters
DISCLOSE Act Coalition Letter
Full Document Available in PDF We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers and concerned citizens represented by our respective…
Newsletter
Toyota’s Body Count, Toll Roads and Voter Intimidation
US News & World Report claims that the death toll from runaway Toyotas was more than originally reported. Concession agreements between cities and private companies…
Reason
Obama Administration Fosters Thug-Friendly Climate (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to criticize D.C. Police for escorting union thugs to the home of a Bank of America lawyer, whose terrified young…
Newsletter
Campaign Finance, Politics at the Justice Department and John Stuart Mill
Democrats push campaign finance reform legislation. A Justice Department lawyer resigns in response to increased politicization of the department. Today is John Stuart Mill’s birthday.