Thu Sep 28, 2023 – 12:32 pm EDT
NEW YORK (Alliance Defending Freedom) — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday on behalf of Christian satire news site The Babylon Bee. The brief urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to uphold a lower court’s decision that halted New York’s law coercing online entities, including the Bee, to monitor and crack down on what the state deems “hateful conduct.”
Filed in support of UCLA constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh – proprietor of the influential blog “The Volokh Conspiracy” – along with online platforms Rumble and Locals, the Bee’s brief underscores the broad implications of a 2022 law passed by New York state, which is being challenged in Volokh v. James. As the brief explains, the law applies to satire and humor as well as to views on hot-button cultural issues like gender identity, public health policy, and more.
READ: ‘Tech justice’ group wants social networks to do more to control information for 2024 election
“The satirists at The Babylon Bee already have their work cut out for them just trying to keep their satirical headlines weeks or even days ahead of actual news –
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors
