First Amendment 📍
Students Suspended for Anti-War Armbands – Zinn Education Project
"A group of students wore black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban."
Are Conservatives Going to Ask Government for a Social Media ‘Fairness Doctrine’ or Learn to Take Risks and Compete?
I don't like the government getting into the market of ideas on either side of the spectrum. It's not like Google is the only search engine out there -- if they do a bad job -- find another competitor like Duck Duck Go.
Albany’s free speech fees – Times Union
"Perhaps most conspicuously, here's a mayor who annually asks the state for millions of dollars more in aid, partly on the argument that Albany, as the seat of state government, has added costs, particularly for public safety. Yet after securing $12 million in extra aid this year, the city turns around and bills people for expenses that state aid was supposed to cover?"
After Florida School Shooting, Russian ‘Bot’ Army Pounced
"One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate. The accounts addressed the news with the speed of a cable news network. Some adopted the hashtag #guncontrolnow. Others used #gunreformnow and #Parklandshooting. Earlier on Wednesday, before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., many of those accounts had been focused on the investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election."