First Amendment 
34 posts and columns on First Amendment
White House Taps Twitter Legal Vet for Tech Advisor Post
Another tech appointment by the Obama administration.
Gone Fishin’: District Attorneys Overreach in Twitter Data Requests
Tweet free or die.
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@TheSlammer: The Perils of Sending False Tweets
Tweets have had a positive effect on disseminating news. But could purposely tweeting fake news have legal consequences? Legal experts say it is possible.Twitter Continues Uphill Trudge in Freedom-of-Tweets Legal Battle
The microblogging service appeals a federal judge’s ruling in an ongoing case that could affect how online speech is seen in the future.
An Attack on WikiLeaks Is an Implicit Attack on Media
You don’t have to embrace Julian Assange as a kindred spirit to believe that what he did in publishing those cables falls under the protection of the First Amendment.
– Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, in an email to GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram in response to a post by Ingram entitled “First they came for WikiLeaks, then the New York Times”
Buzzkill: As Twitter Trumpets New Transparency Report, Judge Deals Company a Blow
On what was supposed to be a day of celebration, the microblogging service suffers a blow in an ongoing First Amendment case.
Google Results Protected by First Amendment, Says Google-Commissioned Report
Do Google’s search results merit the same free-speech protection as articles in a newspaper?
Tweet Free or Die: In Defense of Occupy Protester, Twitter Fights the Man
Twitter’s refusal to acquiesce to government requests for information says something about the company’s stance on privacy.
CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.
It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
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