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Elonis v. United States: When Are Threats Free Speech?
“Fold up your [protection from abuse order] and put it in your pocket Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?” So wrote Anthony Elonis after his wife left him in 2010. Elonis took to Facebook with the pseudonym “Tone Dougie” to create rap lyrics laced with expletives in what he termed “therapeutic” writing. These…
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The Machine That Won’t Quit: Why Even Google Isn’t Enough to End Chinese Censorship
A few weeks ago, Google stunned the world by announcing that it would consider withdrawing from China completely as an Internet server. For a number of reasons, Google’s statement was a shocker. For years, the company has steadily and firmly maintained that it would not back out of the Chinese market, one of its largest…
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