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The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right to Facebook
""The Supreme Court appropriately understood the importance of the internet to the way politics and free expression occur right now," says Neil R…
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The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
"And yet, according to Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, there are 21 crimes that have to do explicitly with speech—things lik…
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Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship
"Morgan Weiland, an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says the blocked tweeters’ complaint could air key questi…
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Trump's Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
""The question of whether the President’s Twitter feed is a public forum is a more complicated question," says Neil Richards, a professor at Wash…
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A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
""These are not questions the law has had to answer before," says Neil Richards, a professor of First Amendment and privacy law at Washington Uni…
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FAN 151 (First Amendment News) Morgan Weiland Meet Ira Glasser — The First Amendment & the Liberal Dilemma
"“Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition” is the title of a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law R…
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There’s a Massive First Amendment Threat (and It’s Not Donald Trump)
Editor’s note: This post previews my forthcoming Stanford Law Review article, “Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speec…
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Cleaning Up The Dirty
"“Richie is taking advantage of what I’d understand as something like a liminal state,” said law professor Danielle Citron, who wrote the book Hate Crimes…
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Tweet that sent journalist Kurt Eichenwald into seizure considered ‘deadly weapon’ in indictment
"“This doesn’t even get in the door of the First Amendment,” Danielle Citron, a legal scholar at the University of Maryland, told The Washington Post. “It…
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Seizure-inducing tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution
"“What is new, because of the technology, is the ease with which certain individuals can be targeted across state lines by remotely distant perpetrators,”…
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Is Posting on Facebook a Fundamental Right?
"“That’s of importance to anyone who uses the internet and digital products and services,” says Neil Richards, a Washington University law professor who sp…
Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition
Abstract Though scholars have identified the expanding scope of First Amendment speech doctrine, little attention has been paid to the theoretical transformati…