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Court battle next in attempts to ban TikTok

donal brown April 25, 2024

Now that President Joe Biden singed a bill requiring TikTok to sell or face a ban, TikTok stated that they will challenge the law in court on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment rights of users. (Politico, April 24, 2024, by Rebecca Kern) The First Amendment prohibits the government from enacting laws that limit freedom of speech. Critics have tried to justify restrictions on TikTok for its being a propaganda machine for China

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States countering book banning surge

donal brown April 25, 2024

States are fighting back against the tide of book bannings across the U.S. with Democratic-majority legislatures passing laws against bans. Minnesota is now considering a law and Washington, Illinois and Maryland have already passed laws. (The Associated Press, April 23, 2024, by Steve Karnowski and Mike Catalini) The Illinois law punishes public libraries for banning books for “partisan or doctrinal” reasons. To keep their eligibility for state funds, public libraries must adopt the American Library

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Wilson v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

FAC April 23, 2024

On April 23, 2024, Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at Mustang News, the student paper at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), sued the university for violating the California Public Records Act by refusing to disclose public records she requested more than 18 months ago. Wilson made the requests while researching stories on campus sexual assault, labor violations alleged by Cal Poly student employees, and a top administrator’s failure to respond to

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