Free Speech
Christian photographer wins victory against New York over pro-homosexual ‘marriage’ messages
Mon Jul 28, 2025 - 6:15 pm EDT ROCHESTER, New York (Alliance Defending Freedom) – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Christian photographer and blogger in New York agreed to enter a court-approved settlement…
South Park is saving free speech!
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave to discuss the $1.5 billion renewal of South Park and why the show remains one of the most important…
10 years in prison for selling a T-shirt of a Hugo Chávez statue getting smashed
Génesis Gabriela Pabón Paredes, 27, and Rocío Del Mar Rodríguez Guillen, 24, of Mérida, Venezuela, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for printing a T-shirt with an image of a demonstrator destroying a statue of Hugo…
The end of online anonymity? Age checks spread worldwide.
Beginning last week, the United Kingdom has started requiring purveyors of online porn to check IDs—and it's already reverberating beyond adult websites. For example, Bluesky—a general-interest social media platform and…
How the FCC’s Paramount/Skydance decision threatens press freedom
A few weeks ago, Paramount, which owns CBS, announced that it would pay $16 million to settle a laughable lawsuit in which President Donald Trump claimed the network had committed consumer fraud by editing a pre-election…
Elon Musk’s X scores federal court win for free speech and open disclosure
X Corp., formerly Twitter, has finally scored a win in its decade-long free speech fight against the federal government. In 2023, a magistrate judge issued a year-long nondisclosure order prohibiting X from "disclosing…
Gaza famine reaches ‘new and astonishing levels of desperation’
A food crisis in Gaza has reached "new and astonishing levels of desperation," according to officials from the World Food Program, an arm of the United Nations that provides nutritional assistance around the globe.…
New bill would fine social media companies $5 million every day for not fighting ‘terrorism’
The idea that the federal government even talked to social media platforms about their moderation was a major scandal. After the Twitter Files leak revealed that the Biden administration was privately leaning on one platform…
Government lessens influence over NPR only to claim greater influence over TikTok
For decades, Republicans threatened to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) only to stay those cuts in exchange for more conservative-friendly programming. It was a surprisingly libertarian twist this month,…
Stephen Colbert’s firing protested by congressional Democrats
Not even Stephen Colbert can survive the changes that are underway at large media organizations. CBS announced earlier this week that the network is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a program that has existed in…
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