Sex & Censorship
Sex is inextricable from a true understanding of the digital age. Or, as Camille Sojit Pejcha puts it, the “internet as we know it wouldn’t exist without sex.” This dialogue between the internet and sex is the very focus of…
DC Circuit Upholds FOSTA
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) in a decision released today. Although the Court did not issue the constitutional ruling we sought, it held that the law must be interpreted…
Statement on Lindke v. Freed Amicus Brief
Can government agencies and officials block people on social media whose views they don’t like? Woodhull Freedom Foundation says No! Joining Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in a brief filed June 30th, Woodhull…
Legislating the Web: Examining Recent Laws Shaping the Future of Free Speech on the Internet
This past Spring saw a renewed interest in Congress to legislate the Internet. Much of the proposed legislation claimed to help keep kids safe online. Senators stated that social media negatively impacts youth's mental health, and their new legislation would…
Free Speech and Apple Pie
Is there anything more American than free speech? The founders of our country considered free speech so important that they made it the First Amendment of our enumerated rights, yet censorship has plagued us throughout our short history. Nothing compares,…
Brief of Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University & Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Support of Petitioner in Lindke v. Freed
The following originally appeared on Electronic Frontier Foundation's website: "Woodhull Freedom Foundation, EFF, and Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University asked the court in a brief filed on June 30th to protect the First Amendment rights of people to access…
Sanctuary Libraries
In September 2022, the Chicago Public Library declared itself a “sanctuary for endangered stories,” i.e., dedicated to establishing “Book Sanctuaries.” Following Chicago’s lead, in January 2023, Stamford, Connecticut became the state’s first sanctuary library. Surely, these developments in Chicago and…