Court Tells Imran Ahmed His First Amendment Claim May Be Real, Just Not Reviewable.

Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, Marco Rubio’s State Department declared that it had banned five people from entering the US because of their speech. Most of them work, in one way or another, on fighting hate speech online, including Imran Ahmed, the head of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). As I’ve made clear over the years, I think that Ahmed and CCDH play fast and loose with their work, pushing sketchy research that is then used to create a misleading moral panic about certain online services. But he should be protected by the First Amendment in his right to publish weak research. I said as much when Elon Musk sued CCDH in an obvious SLAPP suit, and again when the judge dismissed that lawsuit (while...

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