Social media platforms that choose to suspend or ban candidates for office would face tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands – of dollars a day in fines under legislation working its way through the Legislature. The House Commerce Committee on Tuesday approved Senate Bill 1106 along party lines. The bill defines how a social media
“America is the center of personal and religious freedom. But America will disappear if we don’t follow the Constitution.” – John DeLorean My sister, Debby, sent me a religious book, Vibrant Paradoxes by Robert Barron, an American Catholic Bishop. It was an easy read because most of the chapters are only two to three pages
In Idaho, an art exhibit was censored and teens were told they couldn’t testify in some legislative hearings. In Washington state, a lawmaker proposed a hotline so the government could track offensively biased statements, as well as hate crimes. In Florida, bloggers are fighting a bill that would force them to register with the state
[Disclaimer: The views expressed in opinion pieces on the PrescotteNews website are solely those of the authors. These opinions do not necessarily represent those of the staff of Prescott eNews or its publisher.] America could lose one of its first freedoms. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland recently said this about the First Amendment: It is an incredibly
Any true democracy guarantees certain rights and freedoms that a few other countries might not, the most important being the freedom of speech. One of the most fundamental rights in the U.S. Constitution is the First Amendment which protects the right to speech. It guarantees equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds to speak their
The sponsor of a law that would have made it a crime to videotape police conceded Friday that it will not take effect, after he failed to meet a deadline to challenge a court’s injunction of the law. Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said he was not able to find lawyers to defend the law