CherieDeVille on Instagram: "Standing up for the first amendment is everybody’s responsibility."

Our right to communicate

The first right of any person in any society must be the right to communicate. Without communication there is no way to safeguard our other rights or for us to participate fully in a society. When …

We Deserve Better: A New Social Media Bill of Rights

Earlier this year, I was a part of a CNN documentary, Twitter: Breaking the Bird, which gave me much pause for reflection about the state of social media and how we got here. This year alone we&#82…

Going Out to a Protest? Here’s How Not to Get Arrested.

Lawyer Isabella Salomão Nascimento on knowing your rights — and getting the cops to respect them.

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CCLA actively stands up to power by fighting against rights violations, abuse of police powers, inequality, and discrimination. We stand for freedom, equality, and a better future for all people in Canada.

Nothing to Declare

Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions and individuals to organize and try to shine some light onto important issues. We’ve seen many such things in the […]

At The New York Times, an Uprising Over James Bennet’s Incompetence

The paper’s staff is in an incandescent rage over the decision to publish an op-ed calling for the violent disruption of First Amendment rights.

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Accountable Capitalism Act

Political commentator Matthew Yglesias wrote that "Warren's plan starts from the premise that corporations that claim the legal rights of personhood should be legally required to accept the moral obligations of personhood."[2] The New York Times columnist David Leonhardt called the proposal "the most intriguing policy idea to come out of the early 2020 campaign".[3]

An Attack on Tech Freedom, an Assault on Dissent

We live in a world of surveillance states, militarized police, and crackdowns on dissent. Meanwhile, corporate behemoths will often ally with the state to shut down dissident speech or aid and abet surveillance.  In this context, it’s important for independent groups to develop and maintain encrypted communications platforms and independent web hosting. But the Trump...

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Parrhesiastes Apertus on Twitter / X

The hardest person to govern is yourself. Freedom begins when your impulses stop making your decisions for you.— Parrhesiastes Apertus (@P_arrhesiastes) October 15, 2026

Google and Amazon: Acknowledged Risks, and Ignored Responsibilities

In late 2024, we urged Google and Amazon to honor their human rights commitments. Since then, a stream of additional reporting has reinforced that our concerns were well-founded. Yet despite mounting

Mike Stabile (@mikestabile.bsky.social)

First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.