- UK wrongful-speech laws sold to public “with mawkish appeals to the protection of the weak” but typically used by strong, rich and well connected [Charles C.W. Cooke on Galloway episode]
- “Danish terrorist attack survivor: ‘It’s a fight that we can’t ignore'” [Lena Masri, Poynter]
- “It gives me no comfort to have my constitutional rights trampled in a bipartisan fashion.” [Eric O’Keefe, quoted in M.D. Kittle, Wisconsin Watchdog profile of John Doe target Kelly Rindfleisch via @andrewmgrossman]
- “I speak here of the rule of law, not the rule of feels.” [Ken at Popehat on BlockBot listings as non-defamation]
- Rolling back SCOTUS’s First Amendment-based jurisprudence: “Hillary Clinton says she would support a constitutional amendment on campaign finance reform” [Washington Post]
- “Court Rules San Diego’s Law Prof’s Blog Post Was Not Defamatory” [TaxProf]
- “Another Day, Another Dumb New York Times Story on Corporations and Free Speech” [Damon Root, Reason, vs. Times columnist Timothy Egan]
- Sounds promising: Robert Corn-Revere has a book in the works on free speech [Ronald K.L. Collins, Concurring Opinions]
Filed under: bloggers and the law, free speech, terrorism, Twitter, United Kingdom, Wisconsin
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About the Wisconsin John Doe investigation: Some people have criticized Scott Walker for not speaking more about this. But how do we know he’s not also under some sort of gag order?
If nothing else, we need to stop the insanity of requiring that people shut up about having their homes raided.
Am I correct to believe that Congressional investigations outrank anything at the State level? Congress should subpoena Scott Walker to testify in full about the John Doe scandal, *especially* about any gag orders. If anyone files a lawsuit to block such a subpoena, that in itself would tell us something.