- Gawker in the fight of its life over Hulk Hogan sex tape: which addresses the issue of who is a private person and where people give up the right to privacy. The unfortunate truth is that the First Amendment protects ugly speech, and if we don’t stand for the ugly speech, how can we stand for any free speech? Ugly speech makes important laws about our freedoms.
- Reason.com and its responsibility for commenters: in which the government may be chilling free speech through its subpoena power, which is disturbing.
- The power of California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which my lawyers used in my free speech defense against convicted felon Keith Gilabert’s suit. Full disclosure: I occasionally contribute to R Street, but I had no involvement in this story.
The First Amendment is powerful. It’s also complicated. It needs constant defense.
