The First Amendment Protects Zombie Jokes on Facebook
Plus quotes on content moderation and FTC open meeting remarks
First Amendment: On Monday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined us on an amicus brief we filed with the Fifth Circuit arguing that users’ jokes on Facebook are clearly protected by the First Amendment, even jokes about zombies, and even during a pandemic. For more, check out our press release and Twitter thread.
HB 20: The American Law Journal quoted Ari on a case involving HB 20, Texas’s must-carry social media law, and the Texas Nationalist Movement, which seeks to secede from the United States. Meta will not let them link to their website from Facebook. Siding with the Texas separatists would cause chaos, Ari said: “A platform could not, for example, allow content criticizing terrorism without facing liability for removing posts glorifying terrorism.”
FTC: At this month’s FTC’s open meeting, Bilal discussed price and cost information sharing safe harbors in the healthcare industry. “I am aware of no empirical basis for the adoption or reaffirmation of the safe harbor, and no significant efforts of the Commission or DOJ to understand the possible or actual effects of the safe harbor,” he said.
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