Epoch Times - Attorney Mark Chenoweth recently won a landmark settlement in a free speech court case.
Aired: 2026-04-02
Duration: 00:58

[00:00:00]  What does it mean for you and me?
[00:00:02]  Sure.
[00:00:02]  Well, I think the main thing it means is that it's going to be harder for the government to do this kind of thing again.
[00:00:08]  We have a court order that says a few different things.
[00:00:12]  It says that this kind of social media, sort of new media, if you will, is still protected by the First Amendment.
[00:00:20]  It also says that just because the government labels something as disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation, that doesn't mean the government can take it down or censor it.
[00:00:29]  That's still protected under the First Amendment.
[00:00:32]  The First Amendment protects.
[00:00:33]  False speech or what the government thinks is false speech.
[00:00:36]  So there's a role for the government to police speech, but the government needs to police the line between legal speech and illegal speech.
[00:00:43]  So, child porn, something like that, yes, the government could go after that.
[00:00:47]  But the government can't police this line between what it thinks is true and what it thinks is false because that chills robust debate.
[00:00:55]  And the First Amendment wants us to be able to engage in that robust debate.