first amendment Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:17:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 first amendment Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Minnesota Court of Appeals declares ‘revenge porn’ law unconstitutional https://mikesouth.com/legal/minnesota-court-of-appeals-declares-revenge-porn-law-unconstitutional-53848/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/minnesota-court-of-appeals-declares-revenge-porn-law-unconstitutional-53848/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:48:09 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=53848 Minnesota Court of Appeals finds the site revenge porn statute unconstitutionally broad, and lacking in that it does not require proof of an intent to cause harm. The state became the 33rd state to criminalize the “non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images” when the law passed in 2016. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/legal/minnesota-court-of-appeals-declares-revenge-porn-law-unconstitutional-53848/feed/ 0 53848 Court of Appeals rules Texas revenge porn law violates the First Amendment https://mikesouth.com/legal/appellate-court-rules-texas-revenge-porn-law-violates-the-first-amendment-24423/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/appellate-court-rules-texas-revenge-porn-law-violates-the-first-amendment-24423/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:31:55 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24423 The ruling blocks the 2015 Texas revenge porn law in the state’s northeast counties under the 12th Court of Appeals. A state appeals court has blocked a 2015 Texas revenge porn law, ruling that the statute is overly broad and violates the First Amendment. The state law had targeted what author state Sen. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, called […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/legal/appellate-court-rules-texas-revenge-porn-law-violates-the-first-amendment-24423/feed/ 2 24423 More FOSTA Fallout: TheEroticReview.com (TER) BLOCKED in the U.S. https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/more-fosta-fallout-theeroticreview-com-ter-blocked-in-the-u-s-23772/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/more-fosta-fallout-theeroticreview-com-ter-blocked-in-the-u-s-23772/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:03:44 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=23772 The following announcement appeared on the homepage of TheEroticReview.com, a.k.a. ‘TER’, Friday — the same day the the feds seized Backpage.com — stating that the site is self-blocking users with United States IP addresses “until such time as the courts have enjoined enforcement of [FOSTA/SESTA], the law has been repealed or amended, or TER has […]

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