#Free Speech

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🇺🇸 India cracks down on satirists for turning its prime minister into a punch line — 11/04/2026 [USA]
India's satirists are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a punch line — and the government is hitting back.
Related: #Political Satire, #Government Power
🇺🇸 Prosecutors Put Rap Lyrics on Trial. Maryland Is About to Shut It Down — 10/04/2026 [USA]
A new act signed by the Maryland legislature brings long-overdue limits to how prosecutors weaponize art in the courtroom
Related: #Criminal Justice Reform, #Cultural Bias
🇺🇸 Occupational licensing has a First Amendment problem — 09/04/2026 [USA]
The associations that built these exclusive scope-of-practice laws now hold a narrower legal franchise than they did last month.
Related: #Judicial Policy, #Economic Regulation
🇺🇸 Supreme Court's conversion therapy ruling erases gay, transgender identity — 09/04/2026 [USA]
In its recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court invalidated Colorado’s law prohibiting licensed counselors from engaging in efforts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity o...
Related: #Judicial Ruling, #LGBTQ+ Rights
🇺🇸 Supreme Court ruling makes vulnerable children, and therapists, safer in Colorado — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Therapy should be guided by clients’ values and sound clinical practice, not government mandate.
Related: #Judicial Ruling, #Healthcare Policy, #LGBTQ+ Rights
🇺🇸 Ruling in Colorado conversion therapy case brings up free speech debate — 08/04/2026 [USA]
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story SCOTUS ruling stirs First Amendment discourse The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a case arguing that a ban on c...
Related: #LGBTQ+ Rights, #Healthcare Regulation, #Judicial Activism
🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Trump violated free speech by ordering NPR defunded — 31/03/2026 [USA]
A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment. 
Related: #Government Funding
🇺🇸 Supreme Court strikes Colorado ban on conversion therapy — 31/03/2026 [USA]
The Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy "regulates speech based on viewpoint."
Related: #Legal Ruling
🇺🇸 Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ youth — 31/03/2026 [USA]
The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy aimed at youths violates the free speech rights of a conservative Christian therapist. NBC News' Ryan Reilly reports on the court's de...
Related: #LGBTQ Rights, #Religious Freedom, #Youth Protection
🇺🇸 Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's Anthropic ban — 27/03/2026 [USA]
The order briefly stops the government from labeling tech company Anthropic a "supply chain risk," calling that "classic First Amendment retaliation."
Related: #Legal Block
🇺🇸 Brendan Carr says his broadcast license threat wasn’t really about Iran war coverage — 26/03/2026 [USA]
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr never meant to threaten broadcast licenses over their coverage of the war in Iran, he told reporters after an event hosted by FGS and Semafor. "My ...
Related: #Media Regulation, #Broadcast Licensing, #Tech Policy
🇺🇸 Threats over Iran war bare Trump efforts to transform free speech: Experts — 23/03/2026 [USA]
Threat to punish broadcasters for coverage not in 'public interest' comes amid wider roll-backs, analysts say.
Related: #Presidential Power
🇺🇸 Maher shrugs off Trump’s Pearl Harbor joke: ‘You’d laugh’ if a comedian said it — 21/03/2026 [USA]
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday brushed off President Trump's ribbing of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi about Pearl Harbor amid the ongoing U.S. military operation in Iran. "He was in the Oval O...
Related: #Political Comedy
🇺🇸 Supreme Court Allows Street Preacher’s Lawsuit — 20/03/2026 [USA]
Gabriel Olivier was arrested after violating an ordinance restricting demonstrations outside an amphitheater in Brandon, Miss.
Related: #Legal Precedent
🇬🇧 US rapper Afroman cleared after police sued him over use of home raid footage — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Artist who topped UK charts with Because I Got High created comedic videos from footage, which officers claimed invaded their privacyChart-topping US rapper Afroman has been cleared of wrong...
Related: #Legal Victory
🇺🇸 Afroman Triumphs in Wild ‘Lemond Pound Cake’ Trial Filed by Cops — 19/03/2026 [USA]
Police officers had sued the "Because I Got High" rapper after he turned footage of their botched raid on his home into music videos
Related: #Legal Victory
🇺🇸 Afroman sued by deputies for music video showing raid of his home, says 'I got freedom of speech' — 18/03/2026 [USA]
A defiant Afroman testified he exercised free speech when he released a music video featuring images of Ohio deputies raiding his home.
Related: #Legal Dispute
🇺🇸 Javier Bardem and Other Stars Address Wars and Free Speech at Oscars — 16/03/2026 [USA]
Conan O’Brien, the ceremony’s host, noted in his opening monologue that viewers were “all too aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times.”
Related: #Celebrity Activism
🇺🇸 Free speech and wars are noted from the Oscars stage. — 16/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Global Conflicts
🇺🇸 Oscar Presenter Jimmy Kimmel Stings Donald Trump And CBS With Quip About Free Speech — 16/03/2026 [USA]
As Donald Trump and his FCC chairman have again threatened to pull network broadcast licenses for content they don’t like, one of their past targets, Jimmy Kimmel, took to the Oscars stage to deliver ...
Related: #Political Satire
🇺🇸 Democrats blast FCC Chair Carr's broadcast license threats as anti-First Amendment, 'totalitarian' — 15/03/2026 [USA]
Carr on Saturday blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."
Related: #Media Regulation
🇬🇧 Salman Rushdie says he is tired of being ‘free speech Barbie’ after 2022 attack — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Author says he doesn’t ‘feel symbolic’ and hopes to steer narrative to his books after surviving assassination attempt<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/salmanrushdie">Salman Rushdie...
Related: #Personal Safety
🇺🇸 Trump administration to drop charges against US veteran who burned flag — 14/03/2026 [USA]
Veteran Jay Carey burned a US flag in protest of an executive order from Trump calling for prison terms for such acts.
Related: #Veterans Affairs
🇺🇸 Kennedy Center Must Allow Ex Officio Board Member To Voice Her Dissent In Meeting On Trump’s Plans For Closure And Renovation, Judge Rules — 14/03/2026 [USA]
The Kennedy Center must provide one of its ex officio board members information on Donald Trump’s plans to close and renovate the arts institution, and to allow her to voice her opinion at the body’s ...
Related: #Legal Ruling, #Governance
🇬🇧 Justice department drops charges against veteran who burned US flag — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Jan ‘Jay’ Carey torched the Stars and Stripes to protest against Trump’s executive order banning flag burningThe prosecution of a man who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oc...
Related: #Legal Proceedings
🇺🇸 How a first-grader taught her school district and a federal judge about free speech — 14/03/2026 [USA]
This student just won a major free speech victory before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Related: #Education Law
🇺🇸 DOJ moves to drop charges against man who burned U.S. flag outside White House — 14/03/2026 [USA]
Jan Carey was facing two misdemeanor criminal counts in Washington, D.C., federal court.
Related: #Legal Proceedings
🇺🇸 UK court rejects bid to reinstate ‘terrorism’ charge against Kneecap rapper — 11/03/2026 [USA]
Rapper Liam O'Hanna welcomes ruling in case he says was 'never about any threat to the public, never about terrorism'.
Related: #Legal
🇺🇸 Travis Scott, Young Thug Petition Supreme Court Over Use of Rap Lyrics in Death Sentence — 10/03/2026 [USA]
Scott says the decision “subjects the entire genre to prosecution”
Related: #Legal Challenge
🇬🇧 Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinkingThere is a particular kind of danger that smells like paper and ...
Related: #Cultural Politics