Internet Censorship Archive

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction that prevented the law from taking effect while the lower court hears arguments on the merits. The district court didn’t adequately analyze the full scope of platforms the law could apply to, the appeals court says, as required under the Supreme Court’s ruling in an earlier set of cases brought by tech industry group NetChoice.

In February, the Trump administration started turning Associated Press reporters away from media events at the White House after the outlet refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Now, District Judge Trevor McFadden has ordered the White House to end the practice, spotted Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

Washington Post journalist Will Oremus reports that it advanced out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee today after a Republican majority rejected amendments proposed to mitigate its significant speech problems. It now awaits a vote on the House floor.

It’s one of numerous bills being taken up by the House Energy & Commerce Committee starting at 10AM ET — a well-intentioned proposal that, as I wrote last month and discussed on Decoder, is a dead end for fighting nonconsensual sexual imagery and a threat to free speech. Fight for the Future is currently running a petition against it and has a tool for finding your representative (if you live in the US) too.