Censorship

In a narrowly decided opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously threw out millions of dollars in fines the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed on broadcasters but did not address the First Amendment implications of the agency's indecency policy.

Arizona legislators say they are limiting the language of a controversial proposed bill that criminalizes speech via "electronic or digital device" that could, among other things, "offend or annoy" someone else.

The bill passed the Arizona house and senate in March, but is now back on the floor after First Amendment advocates complained that the bill's language was too broad.

A Native American newspaper in a remote region of northern California will not be able to publish again unless editors can justify the publication's budget and content to tribal leaders, one of the paper's editors said Wednesday.

Legal experts are warning that a Tennessee bill signed into law earlier this month could subject news organizations to criminal prosecutions if they publish crime scene photographs, biting political cartoons or anything else that might upset people.

The law’s sponsor said the concerns about criminalizing free speech are overblown, as the law is an effort to update the state’s harassment statute to punish perpetrators who target their victims using electronic communications.

A Washington Examiner columnist and former CIA employee believes the agency's delays in approving his articles for publication amount to "low-level harassment," Congressional Quarterly reported.