Internet Speech

The greatest threats to civil liberties often occur in the name of “national security.” History has shown that free political speech is almost always ...

Yesterday, a California judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges Twitter’s ban of one of its former users, the controversial Jared Taylor. I ...

Facebook’s lobbyists recently teamed up with Maryland legislators to craft what they call a “national model” for regulating ads on social media. The resulting ...

The deceptively-named “Honest Ads Act” is a proposal in Congress that would increase regulations for paid political and issue advertising on the Internet – ...

On behalf of the Institute for Free Speech (“the Institute”),[1] we respectfully submit the following comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ...

More than a thousand students gathered at the Maryland state capitol in March as part of the national “March for Our Lives” demonstrations against ...

A new study is being hyped as evidence that the government needs to police the First Amendment on social media. This month, the Campaign ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees last week had some strange scenes. One minute he’s describing Internet service providers as ...

The Institute for Free Speech provides the following analysis of H.B. 981, which currently awaits a concurrence vote in the House of Delegates. Despite ...

On behalf of the Institute for Free Speech (“the Institute”), we respectfully submit the following comments on constitutional and practical issues with portions of ...