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Will Student Surveillance, Abortion Laws Endanger LGBTQ Youth?  

The Crime Report

And, according to a survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology, one in five LGBTQ students reported that they or a friend were ‘outed’ without their consent as a result of online student monitoring. Advocates are now raising concerns about the treatment of private data for LGBTQ children, The Guardian reports.

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Turley To Moderate Panel On Section 230 and Internet Censorship

JonathanTurley

Goldberg (Victims’ Rights Law Firm); Philip Hamburger (Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School); and Samir Jain (Center for Democracy and Technology, Director of Policy). Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act (47 U.S.C. §

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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Trump executive order on ‘online censorship’ by social media

JURIST

The CDT, a non-profit organisation funded by technology companies like Twitter and Facebook, filed a lawsuit in August, challenging the order on grounds of it curtailed the First Amendment. The lawsuit asked the court to declare the order as invalid and enjoin the President from enforcing it.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

LawSites

Instead, we’ve acted like our law is created and owned by the companies that publish it. We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. I thought it was absurd.

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A guide to the amicus briefs in the affirmative-action cases

SCOTUSBlog

The Liberty Justice Center and Momoko Takahashi make a similar argument. The American Center for Law and Justice and Devon Westhill argue for a colorblind interpretation of the Constitution. Share Nearly 100 amicus briefs were filed in Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v.

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“Connect to Opportunity”: State Department Pushed LinkedIn to Censor “Disinformation”

JonathanTurley

One source of funding for such effort was the State Department and its Global Engagement Center, or GEC. Now, litigation brought by Missouri and Louisiana shows that State Department officials pushed companies to get onboard with blacklisting efforts. Then we learned of additional funding through the State Department’s GEC.

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The Shadow State: NeuralHash and Apple’s Post-Privacy World

JonathanTurley

The company informed the world this week that it would be adding the NeuralHash to its network of over a billion iPhones , storage platforms, and other resources. The user will then be disabled and reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.