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In a busy term that could set standards for free speech in the digital age, the US Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security. The justices are hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Missouri and other parties accusing officials in the Democratic administration of leaning on social media platforms to unconstitutionally squelch conservative points of view. Lower courts have sided with t...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court sided with free speech advocates Tuesday in ruling that a man's online harassment of a country singer could only be deemed illegally threatening if he knew it could be understood as such. The high court overruled the Colorado conviction of Billy Counterman for making what the western US state deemed threats among the thousands of unwelcome Facebook messages he sent to country singer Coles Whalen from 2014 to 2016. True threats are not protected by the US Constitution's guarantee of free speech rights. The Colorado court found based on state laws that Cou...
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Washington (AFP) - The Supreme Court took on a sticky social media issue not envisioned by the drafters of the US Constitution Wednesday: are an online stalker's messages that the recipient considers menacing protected by fundamental free speech rights? In a two-hour discussion that dropped references to intimidating lyrics by Eminem and burning crosses to threaten Black people, the justices were asked to decide whether Billy Counterman was correctly jailed in Colorado for the thousands of unwelcome Facebook messages he sent to country singer Coles Whalen over 2014-2016. To Whalen, Counterman'...
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Washington (AFP) - The State of the Union is a highly scripted affair, but as a piece of political theatre -- played in front of a national audience -- it has often managed to surprise and even shock. Here are five standout moments. Battle for eyeballsToday the State of the Union, referred to as SOTU, is a chance for the president to speak before a guaranteed big television audience, as well as the full Congress, justices of the Supreme Court and other top officials. Joe Biden got an estimated 38 million viewers in 2022, while Bill Clinton's 1993 speech was watched by a record 67 million peopl...
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Washington (AFP) - New Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted an anti-LGBT conspiracy theory Sunday about what happened the night US Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked, then hours later deleted the post. The seesaw action by Musk, a self-declared "free speech absolutist," cast new uncertainty on the direction the social media platform will take under his new ownership. It also underscored the huge megaphone Musk now has at his disposal. Musk early Sunday tweeted a response to Hillary Clinton, who posted a news story about the alleged attacker's links to the far right. "There is a tiny possib...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Twitter users wasted no time Friday testing the limits of free speech on the platform under new owner Elon Musk, with posts questioning transgender identity and masks. Hours after Musk took total ownership of the platform, conservative voices celebrated what they said was their newly-reclaimed right to free speech. Podcaster Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) jumped straight in, tweeting: "BTW turns out men CANT get pregnant, Bring it, libs." The tweet sparked both support and derision, with those apparently in agreement replying with tweets like "Truth," and "This is gonna be a gre...
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Washington (AFP) - Despite worries over war and rising inflation, a light-heartened moment went viral Tuesday during Joe Biden's State of the Union: retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's aw-shucks humility upon being thanked by the US president. It was not just Breyer's self-effacing reaction that set social media alight: the 83-year-old justice broke with longstanding court tradition of steering clear of the political limelight by briefly standing up -- at the president's prodding -- to accept warm applause. "Justice Breyer, thank you for your service," Biden said, playfully pointin...
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Washington (AFP) - It was an address by a man who appears absolutely clear that his greatest strength is in bringing people together. As US President Joe Biden took his place at the front of the House of Representatives for his first State of the Union speech, his most pressing concern was to bring the chamber to its feet in a poignant gesture of solidarity with the people of Ukraine. "The Ukrainian ambassador to the United States is here tonight," the president said as he launched into the 60-minute address, acknowledging the guest of honor, diplomat Oksana Markarova. "Let each of us here ton...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden won standing ovation upon standing ovation Tuesday in a rousing State of the Union speech seeking to transform bipartisan support for confronting Russia into momentum for broader unity as the United States finally emerges from the Covid pandemic. The entire first section of Biden's one hour speech to the joint session of Congress was devoted to the bloody Russian invasion of pro-Western Ukraine. As Biden branded President Vladimir Putin "a Russian dictator," pledged to help Ukraine's fighters, and vowed to confiscate Russian oligarchs' "ill-begotten" yach...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Tuesday branded his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "dictator" facing withering economic and diplomatic isolation for invading neighboring Ukraine, and warned the world is in a "battle" between democracy and autocracy. As he delivered his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, praising the Ukrainian "wall of strength" that has stood tall against Russian invaders, Biden made clear there would be no US boots on the ground in the week-old war on Europe's doorstep. "Let me be clear: our forces are n...
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