Free Speech For People’s Statement on the New York State Court Decision Against Trump for Fraud and Our Yearslong Advocacy to the New York Attorney General Posted on February 16, 2024 (February 16, 2024) Corporate Abuse of Power NEW YORK–Today, a New York state court issued a 92-page decision finding that disgraced ex-president Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in persistent fraud, fined Trump $355 million, and banned him from serving as an officer or director at the Trump Organization or any other New York company, or applying for loans from anyRead More
Big Tech And Our Democracy: FSFP Holds Briefing On Amicus Brief in Gonzalez v Google, and the Big Tech Accountability Act Posted on February 27, 2023 (March 2, 2023) Corporate Abuse of Power Free Speech For People recently held an online briefing to discuss the organization’s amicus brief in the pending case before the Supreme Court, Gonzalez v Google, and the Big Tech Accountability Act. Last December, FSFP filed a friend of the court brief in support of the petitioners in this case following a Ninth Circuit CourtRead More
FSFP Renews Call For Big Tech Accountability Act In Response To President Biden’s New Oped In The Wall Street Journal. Posted on January 13, 2023 Corporate Abuse of Power The Wall Street Journal recently published a new op-ed by President Joe Biden on the need for Congress to pass strong legislation to hold Big Tech accountable. In response, Free Speech For People renewed its call for Congress to pass the Big Tech Accountability Act – the organization’s model federal legislation crafted to protect theRead More
Google Does Not Have Blanket Immunity Under Section 230, Legal Advocates Argue in Friend of the Court Brief before the Supreme Court Posted on December 6, 2022 Corporate Abuse of Power Free Speech For People today filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in the case of Gonzalez v. Google. Our brief shows the ways in which Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act has been wrongly interpreted by the courts to provide blanket immunity to onlineRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements argues for the Big Tech Accountability Act in the Western New England Law Review Posted on July 19, 2022 Corporate Abuse of Power Free Speech For People Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements has authored an article for the Western New England Law Review, outlining our proposed Big Tech Accountability Act. The newly-published piece, entitled “The Big Tech Accountability Act: Reforming How the Biggest Corporations Control and Exploit Online Communications,” addresses many of the unfounded claims usedRead More
Georgia Voters Appeal the Secretary of State’s Decision That Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene May Remain on the Ballot as a Candidate for the US House of Representatives Posted on May 16, 2022 Corporate Abuse of Power Appeal argues that the administrative law judge made four critical errors in procedure and application of the law that warrant review ATLANTA, GA (MAY 16, 2022) – A group of Georgia voters filed today a petition for judicial review before the Fulton County Superior Court of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s decision that Representative MarjorieRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements Authors New Oped on Why The DOJ Must Reject Calls For Recently-Confirmed Antitrust Official to Recuse Himself from The Department’s Case Against Google. Posted on February 3, 2022 Corporate Abuse of Power Jurist recently published a new oped by FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Adviser Ben Clements on why the Department Of Justice must reject calls for the recently-confirmed Associate Attorney General for Antitrust, Jonathan Kanter, to recuse himself from the Department’s case against Google. The following is an excerpt from the new piece: By arguing thatRead More
Citizens United Anniversary. Posted on January 18, 2022 (January 21, 2022) Corporate Abuse of Power Twelve years ago today, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission swept away a century of precedent that barred corporate money in our elections and opened the floodgates to corporations spending limitless sums of money to take over our elections. And lower federal courts have gone even further, prohibiting Congress fromRead More
Full Transcript and Excerpted Video: FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements on The Digital Accountability Act. Posted on November 16, 2021 (November 16, 2021) Corporate Abuse of Power FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements recently appeared at the Western New England Law Review Symposium and gave a presentation on the Digital Accountability Act and the urgent need to hold social media companies accountable when they amplify disinformation and threats of violence on their platforms. The following is the full transcript fromRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements Authors New Oped on Why The DOJ Must Reject Calls For President Biden’s Antitrust Nominee to Recuse Himself from The Department’s Case Against Tech Titans. Posted on October 1, 2021 (October 1, 2021) Corporate Abuse of Power CommonDreams recently published a new oped by FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements on why the Department Of Justice must reject calls for President Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General for Antitrust, Jonathan Kanter, to recuse himself from the Department’s case against Google and other tech titans. In the new piece, Clements notesRead More