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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

First Amendment

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Musk to give away $1 Million daily to US voters

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he will give away one million dollars each day to registered voters in battleground American states. It immediately drew scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. Musk promised to award one million dollars randomly to people who have signed a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments.

todayOctober 22, 2024 12

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With pressure mounting on the Biden administration, its pursuit of Assange was becoming both damaging and untenable

      By Emma Shortis, RMIT University     Today, in a surprise development likely weeks in the planning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to leave the United Kingdom for the first time in more than a decade after reaching a plea deal with the US government. In the past several months, momentum has been building towards this moment. There was increasing bipartisan support in both the Australian […]

todayJune 25, 2024 17

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TikTok law threatening a ban if the app isn’t sold raises First Amendment concerns

TikTok users worry about losing their social media platform, but First Amendment rights are on the line, too. AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey     By Anupam Chander, Georgetown University and Gautam Hans, Cornell University     TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims […]

todayMay 22, 2024 20

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Julian Assange’s appeal to avoid extradition will go ahead. It could be legally groundbreaking

        By Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia     Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s challenge to the order for his extradition to the United States to face charges of computer misuse and espionage will continue, after the High Court in London rejected US government assurances that his rights to freedom of expression would be protected. On March 26, the High Court conditionally granted Assange the right […]

todayMay 21, 2024 17

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Should governments ban TikTok? Can they? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it

Is a wildly popular social media app a threat to U.S. citizens? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer     By Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University   The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 on March 13, 2024, to require TikTok’s parent company, China-based ByteDance, to sell the app or face a nationwide ban on TikTok. President Joe Biden said on March 8 that he would sign the legislation if it reached his […]

todayMarch 14, 2024 20

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