#civil-liberties

MODEL STATE EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS ACT John Hopkins Live Data ‘Unclean! Unclean!’: The Questionable History of Quarantines Coronavirus Is a Ticking Time Bomb for America’s Uninsured MODEL STATE EMERGENCY

If the White House Press Corps had any balls, they'd all stop showing up for the orchestrated press briefings in response to a threat like this and resort to real reporting to cover Trump in the disrespectful

Censorship on social media has been an ongoing problem involving people on both the left and the right, but the recent banning of Alex Jones has increased attention to the issue. While many civil libertarians

Glenn Greenwald reports at The Intercept that Ecuador is preparing to turn Julian Assange over to UK authorities. He writes: A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the President’s office,

Our ideas about freedom of speech and First Amendment rights need to evolve in this social media age. Almost a year ago I wrote about a lawsuit against Donald Trump for banning people from his Twitter

“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting

The American Civil Liberties Union has outlined how Gina Haspel evaded multiple questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee this week. This included a question from Kamala Harris whether she found

The threats to freedom of the press under Donald Trump have led to Reporters Without Borders dropping the rating of the United States to 45th, continuing its downward trend. The United States previously

In 2016 the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton were exposed for undermining democratic principles by rigging the Democratic nomination and other acts of gross dishonesty. While there were

Edward Snowden has joined civil liberties organizations including Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation in condemning Russia for its attempts

The Department of Homeland Security wants to start monitoring "media influencers" according to a report at Bloomberg Law: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to monitor hundreds of

Recent reports on China's social credit system sound Orwellian, or like something out of Black Mirror. The Verge summarized how the system works: Starting in May, Chinese citizens who rank low on the country’s

Facebook is bringing communities together--and deciding what we might say and read. This includes both outright Facebook censorship in which posts are taken down and people are placed in "Facebook

Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of the Rising Expectations Section 1: Trusted Third Party Issue Chapter 3: Trying to Undo Satoshi By Wendy McLoyey Bad News: Civil Liberties and Central Bank (Chapter 3,

The dear Governor has been signed a frenzy of bills into law. It's like he's trying to make up for the previous years of legislative incompetence and impasse. What's the law of the land in CA so far?

No, you didn't misread that. The state legislature of North Dakota has just passed a bill that makes it legal to weaponize drones with non-lethal weapons. This means that, at least in one state of the

Your handy guide to following up on abuse of power article by Evan Koser So you’ve just walked out of your favorite convenience store holding a bag of goods and a law enforcement official stops you for