Report: ‘Peekaboo’ James Flouts Court Orders by Pressuring Social Media to Censor ‘Hateful’ Speech

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Free speech battles over Hamas terrorism against Israeli civilians and the Jewish state’s military response aren’t just roiling college campuses such as New York University, which is investigating its law school’s student body president for using her office to blame Israel.

They could get the Empire State’s attorney general in trouble with a federal judge.

New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James violated court orders in litigation against the state’s “hateful conduct” social media law by pressuring platforms to disclose how they are removing “calls for violence against Muslim and Jewish people and institutions” in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, Rumble’s lawyers said Thursday.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression demanded the “immediate and unequivocal retraction” of James’ October 12 letters to its client, Google, Facebook owner Meta, Elon Musk’s X, TikTok and Reddit, or it will file a motion to stop her again.

FIRE also represents Locals and UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, whose eponymous law blog is covered because it allows reader comments, in the litigation. more