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"Persistent persuasive talk, particularly (politics, economics) talk that includes implied threats of punitive action, such as tighter government regulation."

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Text from article: Anna Gomez, the sole Democrat on the FCC, has said that the threats of agency action are the point. There’s even a term for it: “jawboning,” or “regulation by raised eyebrow,” intended to elicit an action from a private company by mere pressure from a government entity. In an X post, Gomez wrote about Carr’s latest warning, “The FCC can issue threats all day long, but it is powerless to carry them out. Such threats violate the First Amendment and will go nowhere. Broadcasters should continue covering the news, fiercely and independently, without fear of government pressure.” Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said in a statement, “Brendan Carr’s authoritarian warning — that networks risk their broadcasting licenses for Iran war reporting that the government doesn’t like — is outrageous. When the government demands the press become a state mouthpiece under the threat of punishment, something has gone very wrong.”

"the threats of agency action are the point. There’s even a term for it: #Jawboning ... intended to elicit an action from a #private company by mere pressure from a #government entity.

...Gomez wrote about Carr ... “The #FCC can issue threats all day long, but […]

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Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him Just a year and a half ago, Senator Rand Paul sponsored a bill that would make it illegal for federal government employees to ask internet companies to remove any speech. Now, in a NY Post op-ed, Paul proudly announces that he did exactly that—formally contacting Google executives to demand they remove a video he didn’t […]

The First Amendment and Jawboning: A Look into the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision The First Amendment provides important safeguards that prohibit the go

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DOJ investigates Renee Good's widow and elected officials after fatal ICE operation DOJ examined Tim Walz and Jacob Frey as officials probed whether Minnesota's governor and Minneapolis's mayor hindered ICE through public remarks

#JenniferMcGuffin, a spokesperson for #BeccaGood’s attorney, said Friday that “there has been no contact from the FBI or federal officials to Good indicating she is the subject of an investigation.”

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Check out this conversation with the team litigating over the DOJ's #jawboning around the ICEBlock App on @legalafmtn.bsky.social
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ICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and 'unlawful threats' The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration. Now, the app's developer is suing.

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#ICEBlock creator #JoshuaAaron has sued the U.S. gov for successfully pressuring Apple to remove it from their App Store, thus violating his 1st amendment rights.
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Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it’s very, very easy to tell them something that they know will be interpreted as a “victory” while actually signaling something very, very different. You […]

Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning' Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.

Betting if the ACLU wasn't setting up lawsuits, others would be.

#JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #jawboning

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I suspect anyone still reading understands the early warning I gave about excessive, offensively intentionally pointless and circular #jawboning — whatever that is

are we expected to have the knowledge of such lofty and prestigious pursuits like marine micro-archeologists now?

#insanity

War All The Time - Album by Thursday War All the Time is the third studio album by American rock band Thursday. Following the release of their second album Full Collapse, the group had a series of negative experiences with their label Vi...

... #jawboning about stupid semantic differentiation

more commonly known as "sensational rhetorical ignorance" or to those who've signaled allegiance to a certain class of tactless talentless "professionals" operating in this arena: "culture warriors"

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What is jawboning? And does it violate the First Amendment? Indirect government censorship is still government censorship — and it must be stopped.

Word of the Day! #Jawboning! "Using official speech to compel private action." And it's a violation of the First Amendment! www.thefire.org/research-lea...

What is jawboning? And does it violate the First Amendment? Indirect government censorship is still government censorship — and it must be stopped.

Word of the Day! #Jawboning! It's defined as "the use of official speech to inappropriately compel private action," and it's a clear violation of the First Amendment, as recently reaffirmed, 9-0, by the Supreme Court. www.thefire.org/research-lea... #CancelDisneyPlus #BoycottABC #StandWithKimmel

Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court — POLITICO He should sue the Trump administration.

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Jawboning and the First Amendment

The First Amendment imposes stringent constraints on the government’s power to regulate speech, but the question of when it prohibits #jawboning warrants more attention. Check out our blog series on why it matters as a form of censorship, and possible regulations. knightcolumbia.org/research/jaw...

Jawboning and Jimmy Kimmel The suspension of his late-night show isn’t a great loss to culture. But the FCC’s coercion undermines our most fundamental values.

An excellent editorial from the conservative publication, The Free Press, condemning the government pressure that led to Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation.
#fFreeSpeech #FCC #jawboning #JimmyKimmel
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How Higher Ed Got Jawboned Podcast Episode · The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment · 07/31/2025 · 46m

Listen to Wesleyan University President Michael Roth and @genevievelakier.bsky.social discuss the #jawboning of higher ed and how the admin is weaponizing allegations of antisemitism:
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How Higher Ed Got Jawboned Podcast Episode · The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment · 07/31/2025 · 46m

LISTEN to today's episode with First Amendment legal scholar @genevievelakier.bsky.social and Wesleyan President Michael Roth discussing the Trump administration’s #jawboning and extortion campaign against U.S. universities.

More on the conversation below. ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI Original Source Th...

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Federal Funding as a Jawbone

New post from @evelyndouek.bsky.social argues that the First Amendment's bar on #jawboning to suppress speech is even broader than the unconstitutional conditions doctrine, part of our federal funding & 1A series. Read it here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/federal...

Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette works at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group focused on reducing bureaucratic waste. He also happens to be blind. So when he criticized Elon Musk’s...

This - #jawboning - is why any person or entity in the WORLD with a conscience needs to get off of #X NOW, regardless of number of followers there. Starve the #beast. #PresidentMusk #Twitter #Xitter www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

A Free Speech View on the “Free Speech” Executive Order A Trump administration executive order purporting to curtail “jawboning” raises concerns among free-speech advocates.

@alexabdo.bsky.social takes aim at Trump's executive order on free speech, finding that it fails to engage in any sincere effort to confront #jawboning and may even act as a vehicle for the new administration to engage in new forms of government censorship. www.justsecurity.org/106608/free-...

This week in @justsecurity.org, @knightcolumbia.org staff consider two of Trump's executive orders. The pieces address the future of #TikTok and the issue of #jawboning under the new administration. Read below:

The Jawboning Double Standard: Brendan Carr’s Threats Are Way Worse Than What Biden Was Accused Of I know it’s no surprise that the modern MAGA world is incredibly hypocritical. They speak of free speech while making every effort to suppress speech they dislike. But the latest example of this hy…

The #Jawboning Double Standard: Brendan Carr’s Threats Are Way Worse Than What Biden Was Accused Of - www.techdirt.com/2025/01/07/t...

Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA For better or worse, jawboning has been a hot topic recently, and it’s unlikely that interest will fade any time soon. Jawboning, in broad strokes, is when the government pressures a third party to…

#Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA - www.techdirt.com/2024/11/15/j... "the DMCA as currently drafted and interpreted allows and even encourages using the #DMCA’s takedown notice system as a tool to censor" #copyright

Supreme Court Rules That US Government Can Continue Talking to Social Media Companies The SCOTUS ruling overturns an earlier injunction that prevented platforms from communicating with the government for more than a year.

“While it is the govt’s responsibility to make sure it refrains from #jawboning—the practice in which govts & leaders appeal to the public in an effort to influence the behavior of private companies, & in ways that potentially violate free speech….” www.wired.com/story/...

Jawboning and the Limits of Government Advocacy Clear rules are hard to apply but especially necessary in these polarized times.

CDT’s recent amicus brief for Murthy v. Missouri mentioned in @lawfare.bsky.social article about recent Supreme Court rulings and what they mean for #Jawboning and limits on government advocacy. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/jawb...