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I hadn't heard of the app NGL until recently. But that's not surprising. The anonymous questions app seems to be largely popular among teens. Bark, the maker of parental content-monitoring software, calls NGL "a recipe for drama" and cyberbullying. But it seems like a fairly standard social media offering, allowing users to post questions or prompts and receive anonymous responses. Now, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered NGL to ban users under age 18. That Slippery Slope Again The FTC and the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office say NGL "unfairly" marketed the app to minors. "NGL...
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This week, a federal court in Louisiana dismissed a lawsuit against protest organizer DeRay Mckesson, putting an end to a case that stretched many years and threatened to chill First Amendment–protected speech. In July 2016, police officers in Baton Rouge shot and killed Alton Sterling, a black man selling CDs outside a convenience store, while they pinned him to the ground. The shooting sparked protests around the country. At a Black Lives Matter march in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department just days later, protesters scrapped with police, in some cases throwing water bottles. One demo...
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In 2022, photojournalist Benjamin Hendren photographed some police officers arresting a group of protesters. Even though Hendren didn't interfere with police activity—he even offered to let the officers speak with his editor—the officers arrested him. What's more, they even encouraged employees at the construction site being protested to fabricate statements about Hendren. Hendren has now filed a lawsuit against the officers who arrested him, arguing he was punished for exercising his First Amendment rights. On July 29, 2022, Hendren heard over a police radio that police had arrived at the sce...
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Since Hamas' attack on Israel last October and the war in Gaza that followed, college campuses across the nation have been embroiled in a series of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests. In the spring, more than 100 of these protests turned into encampments. At several colleges, tent encampments devolved into spurts of violence and vandalism, and occasional clashes with police brought in to break them up. As the school year drew to a close, scenes of chaos at colleges such as Columbia and UCLA commanded national headlines. The situation became even more gripping when university administrators ...
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Police in the Maldives have arrested State Minister for Environment, Climate Change, and Energy Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem. Police haven't said why she was arrested, but local media report she is accused of using black magic against President Mohamed Muizzu. Sorcery isn't illegal under the country's civil penal code. But it can be punished by up to six months in prison under Islamic law in the majority Muslim nation. The post Brickbat: Black Magic Woman appeared first on Reason.com.
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A federal judge has ruled a Tennessee woman can't be fined for saying what we're all thinking, even if it's in the form of a yard sign. This past week, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee ruled that the town of Lakeland, Tennessee, violated resident Julie Pereira's First Amendment rights when it fined her for placing a "Fuck Em' [sic] Both 2024″ sign in her yard. According to her First Amendment lawsuit filed last month, Pereira's sign "simply and cogently" expressed her own opinion that neither major party candidate was an acceptable choice for president. A Lakeland ...
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Last week, Oklahoma state Superintendent Ryan Walters announced that the state could soon require public schools to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments, including requiring religious text be included in all classrooms. "Every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom," Walters said last Thursday, "to ensure that this historical understanding is there for every student in the state of Oklahoma." The statement came just days after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state could not approve a religious ...
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Campus protests that started out as anti-Israel and too often slid over into flat-out antisemitism and pro-terrorist advocacy shocked much of the nation in recent months. It's enough to make anybody wonder what kind of education is going on at institutions of higher education, and just what has happened to many of the students attending them—especially at elite schools. But one body that really should butt out unless the protests cross beyond the bounds of protected speech is the government. State attempts to police speech have a lousy history and threaten to turn even the most hateful protest...
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Last week, a federal judge ruled that B.G., a rapper known for the hit 1999 song "Bling Bling," must give the government copies of the lyrics to any new songs as a condition of his supervised release. While prosecutors can generally place a wide range of otherwise illegal restrictions on released prisoners' conduct, critics argue this restriction is an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech. In 2012, B.G., whose real name is Christopher Dorsey, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegal gun possession and obstruction charges. After serving 11 years, Dorsey was released in February. In...
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Masameer County was supposed to be Saudi Arabia's big break in the comedy world. The online cartoon, similar in tone to South Park and Family Guy, had been growing in popularity as the kingdom was undergoing social reforms. When Netflix picked up Masameer County in 2021, it quickly topped the viewership charts in Saudi Arabia. And you didn't have to be Saudi to enjoy it. The citizens of Masameer, a fictional Saudi metropolis, suffer from the same everyday problems as the rest of us: annoying viral trends, spoiled nepo babies, obsessive online nerds, pandemic-induced social isolation, and badly...
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