Floyd abrams joined the advocates and legal scholars for a discussion about First Amendment cases in the courts during the Constitution Centers First Amendment a summit in philadelphia. They discuss how the court may view social media and contrast to traditional media and the importance of a free press. Thank you, everyone. I confess that i was showing up with lincolns socks. The Supporters Committee had a socks, but im still a little bit stiff in public and i cant bring myself to wear them yet. They are on the website if you want to go check them out to walk the First Amendment walk. Im delighted to be here with jamil and larissa and we are going to get right into it to ie we have a lot to cover. The last few months have been a busy time for First Amendment washers. So many different headlines and cases. The newspaper in kansas a lawsuit in florida brought disney. A Defamation Case against fox news that fizzles out into a very large financial settlement to the company. Texas bull stic
Nice chair. Thank you, everyone. I confess that i was showed up. The Reporters Committee has sox too socks too, but im stiff in public and cannot bring myself to wear them yet. They are on the website. Im delighted to be here with floyd and marissa and were going to get right to it because we have a lot to cover. The last few months have been a busy time in for First Amendment watchers. Many different headlines in cases out there. The newspaper in kansas, a lawsuit in florida brought by disney. A Defamation Case against fox news that fizzles out into a large financial settlement. Texas pulls tiktok off of state devices and networks and montana decides to ban tiktok entirely. Two very closely watched cases involving social media moderation, one in texas, one in florida and the Biden Administration has weighed in. Last friday, two more developments, federal Appeals Court circuit ways in on a very interesting job voting case about government around content social media platforms carry and
Sculptor vuchetich with a pendulum is now being compared to what is happening in ukraine when one side gains an advantage, the other learns from mistakes. Then they try to switch places. And here it is necessary try to understand how much of a comparison this is. Justified, because on the one hand, as they say, putin is now launching a counteroffensive. Kiev is not stalling, but simply failed and i would like this state of affairs to remain this way on the other hand, and we and the west understand that military operations in ukraine are at a dead end this is a signal, its time to sit down and talk in real terms. They are in zelenskys statements or as he wants or not at all. And now they will either try to lure us behind our line of defense so that we lose our strategic advantage, or they will try gather enough forces to attack at any cost in at least one direction and there is no question what they will choose is more important to us, what will we do . We are unlikely to just watch th
Nice chair. Thank you, everyone. I confess that i was showed up. The Reporters Committee has sox too socks too, but im stiff in public and cannot bring myself to wear them yet. They are on the website. Im delighted to be here with floyd and marissa and were going to get right to it because we have a lot to cover. The last few months have been a busy time in for First Amendment watchers. Many different headlines in cases out there. The newspaper in kansas, a lawsuit in florida brought by disney. A Defamation Case against fox news that fizzles out into a large financial settlement. Texas pulls tiktok off of state devices and networks and montana decides to ban tiktok entirely. Two very closely watched cases involving social media moderation, one in texas, one in florida and the Biden Administration has weighed in. Last friday, two more developments, federal Appeals Court circuit ways in on a very interesting job voting case about government around content social media platforms carry and
Sculptor vuchetich with a pendulum is now being compared to what is happening in ukraine when one side gains an advantage, the other learns from mistakes. Then they try to switch places. And here it is necessary try to understand how much of a comparison this is. Justified, because on the one hand, as they say, putin is now launching a counteroffensive. Kiev is not stalling, but simply failed and i would like this state of affairs to remain this way on the other hand, and we and the west understand that military operations in ukraine are at a dead end this is a signal, its time to sit down and talk in real terms. They are in zelenskys statements or as he wants or not at all. And now they will either try to lure us behind our line of defense so that we lose our strategic advantage, or they will try gather enough forces to attack at any cost in at least one direction and there is no question what they will choose is more important to us, what will we do . We are unlikely to just watch th