Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates

[ad_1] The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton did not end the legal debate over age-verification mandates for websites. Instead, it’s a limited decision: the court’s legal reasoning only applies to age restrictions on sexual materials that minors do not have a legal right to access. Although the ruling reverses decades […]

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We Support Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to UK’s Online Safety Act

[ad_1] The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ARTICLE 19 strongly support the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the categorization regulations of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act. The Foundation – the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects – announced its legal challenge earlier this year, arguing that the regulations endanger Wikipedia and the global community of volunteer contributors […]

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EFF Stands with Perkins Coie and the Rule of Law

[ad_1] As a legal organization that has fought in court to defend the rights of technology users for almost 35 years, including numerous legal challenges to federal government overreach, Electronic Frontier Foundation unequivocally supports Perkins Coie’s challenge to the Trump administration’s shocking, vindictive, and unconstitutional Executive Order. In punishing the law firm for its zealous […]

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EFF Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Perkins Coie Law Firm Against Unconstitutional Executive Order

[ad_1] EFF has joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its past work on voting rights lawsuits and its representation of the President’s prior […]

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EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold TikTok Ban

[ad_1] We are deeply disappointed that the Court failed to require the strict First Amendment scrutiny required in a case like this, which would’ve led to the inescapable conclusion that the government’s desire to prevent potential future harm had to be rejected as infringing millions of Americans’ constitutionally protected free speech. We are disappointed to […]

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EFF Statement on Meta’s Announcement of Revisions to Its Content Moderation Processes

[ad_1] Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public “Hateful Conduct” policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address. In general, EFF supports moves that bring more freedom of expression and transparency to platforms—regardless of their political motivation. We’re encouraged […]

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The French Detention: Why We’re Watching the Telegram Situation Closely

[ad_1] EFF is closely monitoring the situation in France in which Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov was charged with having committed criminal offenses, most of them seemingly related to the operation of Telegram. This situation has the potential to pose a serious danger to security, privacy, and freedom of expression for Telegram’s 950 million users.   On […]

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In These Five Social Media Speech Cases, Supreme Court Set Foundational Rules for the Future

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court addressed government’s various roles with respect to speech on social media in five cases reviewed in its recently completed term. The through-line of these cases is a critically important principle that sets limits on government’s ability to control the online speech of people who use social media, as well as […]

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