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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Jameel Jaffer |Genevieve Lakier
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Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that threatens to shut down TikTok in the United States.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Jameel Jaffer |Genevieve Lakier
Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that threatens to shut down TikTok in the United States. The court's most consequential conclusion: The First Amendment permits the government to protect Americans from covert foreign manipulation by restricting their access to foreign-controlled media - even when that means Americans' speech is restricted, too.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder |Jameel Jaffer
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a nationwide ban on TikTok unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells its ownership stake. This decision marks a significant victory for the Biden administration and comes despite TikTok’s claims that the ban violates the free speech rights of millions of American users.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Jameel Jaffer
A president who intends to prosecute journalists, deport student protesters, imprison flag-burners, shut down broadcasters and throw the book at whistleblowers – to list just a few of president-elect Donald Trump’s speech-suppressive ideas – is likely to collide very quickly with the first amendment. But whether the first amendment will be a real obstacle to Trump’s censorial agenda is difficult to predict.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
justsecurity.org | Jameel Jaffer
On Monday, three federal judges will consider the constitutionality of the so-called TikTok ban, which will shut off TikTok in the United States beginning in January unless TikTok’s China-based owner sells the platform before then. TikTok is a relatively new technology, but the ban is a reprise of past reactionary efforts to limit Americans from accessing media from abroad. The court should see the ban in that light and strike it down.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
justsecurity.org | Jameel Jaffer
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing U.S. defense secrets. According to news reports, the Justice Department will recommend to a U.S. district court for the Northern Mariana Islands that Assange be released to Australia, his country of citizenship, given the more-than five years he has already served at Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
knightcolumbia.org | Jameel Jaffer |Genevieve Lakier
Institute UpdateA new season of “Views on First” about free speech and the war in Israel and Gaza Today, we’re launching “War & Speech,” a podcast exploring the free speech fallout of the war in Israel and Gaza. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be talking to scholars, advocates, and others about the ways in which the war taking place half a world away is testing our system of free speech here in the United States.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
justsecuritypodcast.buzzsprout.com | Jameel Jaffer |Ryan Goodman
Paras Shah: Hello and welcome to a special episode of the Just Security podcast. I’m your host, Paras Shah. On March 6, 2024, Just Security and the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law co-hosted an all-star panel of experts to discuss the issue of government “jawboning” – a practice of informal government efforts to persuade, or strong-arm, private platforms to change their content-moderation practices.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
wsbtv.com | Katie Mather |Jameel Jaffer
On March 7, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce unanimously approved advancing a bill that would give TikTok six months to divest from its parent company ByteDance or face a potential ban.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Jameel Jaffer
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
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