Protecting teens shouldn’t require permission to speak

Campus & Education

Across the United States, teenagers freely express themselves online. But that freedom is rapidly being restricted, and make no mistake: this doesn’t just end with teens. What is often portrayed as a youth mental health issue is really a battle for everyone’s online speech rights.Worldwide, governments are moving to restrict minors’ access to social media. In Europe, France is seeking to ban children under 15 from using social media without parental consent, the United Kingdom is pursuing expanded regulatory authority over youth online access and platform design, and Spain has proposed criminal liability for tech executives who fail to remove harmful content quickly…

Media & Culture

“Making Broadcast Content Regulation Aggressive Again,” by Stuart Minor Benjamin

Starting in the 1980s under President Reagan, the FCC curtailed or abandoned most of the content regulations of broadcasting that it had earlier promulgated. That pattern continued through the Biden Administration: Such regulation was largely dormant. Statutes regulating content existed (although, with the episodic exception of indecency, they were interpreted narrowly). But regulations created by the FCC were either repealed (notably the fairness doctrine), never applied (e.g., the broadcast hoax rule), or applied so rarely and weakly as to be toothless (e.g., the broadcast news distortion policy). Broadcast television may seem like a relic of the past to some readers…

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Politics

A War by Any Other Name

Media & Culture

On February 28, President Donald Trump announced “major combat operations” to eliminate “imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” marking the beginning of a bombing campaign known as Operation Epic Fury. April 29 will mark the 60th day of a war…

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