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EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reinstate X’s Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional California Content Moderation Law

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court to reinstate X’s lawsuit challenging a California law that forces social media companies to file reports to the state about their content moderation decisions, and with respect to five controversial issues in particular—an unconstitutional intrusion into platforms’ right to...

EFF Opposes California Initiative That Would Cause Mass Censorship

In recent years, lots of proposed laws purport to reduce “harmful” content on the internet, especially for kids. Some have good intentions. But the fact is, we can’t censor our way to a healthier internet.When it comes to online (or offline) content, people simply don’t agree about what’s harmful. And...

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As India Prepares for Elections, Government Silences Critics on X with Executive Order

It is troubling to see that the Indian government has issued new demands to X (formerly Twitter) to remove accounts and posts critical of the government and its recent actions. This is especially bears watching as India is preparing for general elections this spring, and concerns for the...

Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrime Prosecution of a Journalist?

Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The raid raised questions about whether Burke was being investigated for First Amendment-protected journalistic activities, and...

NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702

We’ve been challenging the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of ordinary people since we first became aware of it nearly twenty years ago. Now, Section 702 is back up for a major renewal since it was last approved in 2018, and we need to pull out all the stops to...

Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute's Report on Electronic Monitoring

While some have claimed the use of electronic monitoring (EM) is an alternative to physical detention in the criminal justice system, a new report by the Vera Institute of Justice provides the most detailed data yet showing that these claims don’t match reality, and outlines a number of issues with...
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Defending Access to the Decentralized Web

Decentralized web technologies have the potential to make the internet more robust and efficient, supporting a new wave of innovation. However, the fundamental technologies and services that make it work are already being hit with overreaching legal threats.Exhibit A: the Interplanetary File System (IPFS). IPFS operates via a “distributed hash...

Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act 

The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues to empower state officials to target services and online content they do not like.

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