California Governor (and potential 2028 presidential candidate) Gavin Newsom recently vetoed a bill, SB-771, which would hold social media companies liable for violating California’s civil rights law if they “recklessly aided and abetted” the posting of hate speech. “Recklessly” replaces the California civil rights law’s current requirement that someone “knowingly” aided and abetted a violation of the law. The reason for this change is it is almost impossible to prove that a social media company knowingly a ...

For all the single people present today, what's the most attractive personality trait someone could have. A sense of humor. Right.Humor is one of the most powerful tools that we have. We use it to connect, to cope, to communicate. From awkward school presentations to tense family dinners, humor finds a way to save the day.But the kind of humor that we've been seeing online lately, it's different. It's not playful or light-hearted. It's darker.Jokes about trauma, racism, and even mass violence circulating on ...

“Countering hate speech is not about criminalising offensive opinions but about openly challenging the narratives that dehumanise entire communities,” writes the former GCHQ director in a guest essay https://t.co/TWFZJvREar ...

Trump administration is clearly on defense now over these proven attacks on free speech and confessions, admissions of improper motive by senior officials. The New York Times reporting there are now these measures to silence opponents that the White House wants to pursue. That would be unamerican full stop, but probably unconstitutional.We will see exactly what they try to do, but that Trump is pursuing them by invoking Kirk's killing. Tonight, there are clues about a new order Trump may push that would try ...

Trump. The feds are waging an unusual, aggressive, and quite possibly illegal effort, separate from what happened that day, to now continuously try to crack down on free speech and on their perceived domestic political opponents. Yet, they're citing the shooting repeatedly as the rationale.And that brings us to a major legal mistake by the Justice Department's top official, Pam Bondi, coming amid major questions also facing the FBI's top official over this very case. And so before we go any further into the ...

Do you see more law enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech and putting cuffs on people so we show them that some action is better than no action. >> We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything. And that's across the aisle.Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi is going so far as to say that the Justice Department would go after anyone who engages in what she deemed hate speech. The attorney general later clarifying on social media that ...

South Africa's firebrand MP found guilty of hate speech https://t.co/lktI3wdNRa ...

Censorship & Regulation - The UK's "Online Safety Act" is now in effect, likened to censorship laws in Brazil and the EU [1] - The Act empowers UK regulators to block access to websites or apps based on "hate speech" [1] - 4chan is reportedly already blocked in the UK under the new law [1]