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Roxana Man Charged In Granite City Facebook Marketplace Robbery

Riverbender 🕸
3 months ago
GRANITE CITY – A local man accused of robbing a Facebook Marketplace buyer after arranging to sell them a gaming system faces a felony charge. Ayden R. Freeman, 21, of Roxana, was charged on March 12, 2026 with one count of aggravated robbery, a Class 1 felony. On Feb. 23, 2026, Freeman allegedly knowingly took $450 in U.S. currency from an individual victim and threatened the imminent use of force by indicating he was armed with a firearm. The Madison County State’s Attorney’s

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

TechDirt 🕸
3 months ago
When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with something disarming: agreement. “I want to support the basic part of this,” she said, the shared goal of protecting young people online. Because that is not controversial: everyone […]
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Amid war, Pentagon quashing of reporter access is blatant censorship

Freedom of the Press
3 months ago

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

A judge today ruled in favor of The New York Times in its challenge to the Trump administration’s unconstitutional policy restricting journalists’ access to the Pentagon unless they agree not to publish information that officials don’t authorize for release.

The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):

“The judge was right to see the Pentagon’s outrageous censorship for what it is, but this wasn’t exactly a close call. If the same issue was presented as a hypothetical question on a first-year law school exam, the professor would be criticized for making the test too easy. It’s shocking that this sweeping prior restraint was the official policy of our federal government and that Department of Justice lawyers had the nerve to argue that journalists asking questions of the government is criminal.

“Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court called prior restraints on the press ‘the most serious and the least tolerable’ of First Amendment violations. At the time, the court was talking about relatively targeted orders restraining specific reporting because of a specific alleged threat — like in the Pentagon Papers case, where the government falsely claimed that the documents about the Vietnam War leaked by Daniel Ellsberg threatened national security. Courts back then could never have anticipated the government broadly restraining all reporting that it doesn’t authorize without any justification beyond hypothetical speculation.

“It’s unfortunate that it took this long for the Pentagon’s ridiculous policy to be thrown in the trash. Especially now that we are spending money and blood on yet another war based on constantly shifting pretexts, journalists should double down on their commitment to finding out what the Pentagon does not want the public to know rather than parroting ‘authorized’ narratives.”

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Freedom of the Press Foundation